#SOL24: Prompts

Writing to a Prompt?

What images or feelings does that question conjure up? What do you value in writing? How strongly do you feel about those values? 

I’m participating in #ASDWWrites – 30 days of writing. Each day we have a quote, a mentor text, and some possible prompts. But they always include choices. Choice make daily writing to a prompt possible for me. I’m not a writer-to-a-prompt daily and I think this is important for me to share. Prompts make my skin crawl. But this feels different.

And I remember hating giving students prompts to write to. I also gave them tips to help them write to any topic.

Last week I shared a snow poem that came from #ASDWWrites here.

Yesterday’s mentor text was this.

      I’m So Happy to Hear That

A grandson reading.

A grandson laughing.

“Grandma, will you play with me?”

Coffee gurgling as it drips through the filter.

Chimes tinkling in the wind.

The song of the quilting machine.

The steady hum of the sewing machine.

Quiet conversations about choices.

Favorite songs from Alexa.

“Have you picked up your foot yet?”

Common courtesies: ”Please, Thank You, and Hello.”

The roar of the crowd for every Logo 3.

The notification chime for a #CuriosityCrew message.

Messages from Hawaii.

The thud of feet walking on a snow-covered path.

That whispered thank you in my brain as the sun rises.

Choice: How do you feel about prompts? or What Do You Hear?            What are you thinking and how does it impact your teaching?

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