
Your imaginary friend never went away and pops up at unexpected times to ask you to play, but you are still the only one who can see them. Your best friend bets you $100 that you can’t make it an entire school day without telling a single lie.
The teacher never returned, and the principal hasn’t come in to check on you.
The teacher had to leave class due to an emergency and left you in charge. One day, we woke up, and all of the animals could talk.
The teens didn’t believe in Ouija boards until the things it told them started coming true.Whenever you put it on, it makes you feel more confident and powerful … and angry. While on vacation, you bought an antique locket from a weird little store you found while sightseeing.You’ve finally convinced your parents to let you stay home alone, but now it’s dark out, and your dog won’t stop growling at the back door, even though no one’s out there.But when you return home after suffering a concussion during a soccer game, you start to notice shadows that seem to move on their own and the sounds of people walking in empty rooms. You were born and raised in a house that’s over one hundred years old and never found it a bit spooky.
You and your best friend are the two students chosen to hike back in the dark for help.
While camping on a school field trip, the chaperones all get sick/injured. One day, your robot friend tells you that the robots are planning on taking over the world and imprisoning the humans. Like every other kid in the year 2122, you were given your very own robot best friend when you were little, and they’ve grown up with you. Due to a computer virus, all social media disappears overnight. At the first meeting, you realize that the kid who has bullied you since elementary school is also on the mission. Your family has been selected to join 24 other families colonizing Mars. Scientists have solved all the world’s problems, and we now live in a utopia … or do we?. You will be meeting friends you’ve known since kindergarten for the first time in real life. You’ve done this since kindergarten, but a new law is passed stating that virtual school is unhealthy and, next year, all students will go to school in person. In the future, students go to school virtually. You lose a bet with your most adventurous friend and for one day have to say “yes” to whatever crazy activities they choose. In addition to that crazy realization, they tell you they need your help for one very important mission. You just found out that your mother/father is a spy for the CIA. You and your friends decide to hike the Appalachian Trail for the summer. The school field trip was supposed to be fun. When a mysterious corporation that claims to have mastered time travel recruits you to travel back to the 15th century to learn more about what life was like for Aztec children, you agree almost immediately. You are obsessed with the ancient Aztecs. A new app promises to help you get your life together, and it works! If you follow everything it tells you to do, you have an awesome day. An obscure relative passes away and leaves you $500,000 in their will under the condition that you move into their 100-year-old house immediately. There are muddy footprints leading up to the front door of the house … but it hasn’t rained for days. You discover the new student at school looks exactly like you. The tombstones in the town’s cemetery are going missing. TEACHER AS A PROMPTER FREE
Want this entire set of short story prompts in one easy document? Get your free PowerPoint or Google Slides bundle by submitting your email here. Give your students the following list of intriguing short story prompts and watch what they create. This is where I’ve found short story prompts to be so helpful. Getting started, however, can often be tricky. Narrative writing is a wonderful way to allow every student to use the skills they’ve practiced in class to create something new. Suddenly, after weeks of ignoring my helpfully provided feedback, they were crowding my desk to ask me to read their work.
They wanted their characters to feel like real people. They wanted to write suspense, mystery, horror, or romance. When given the freedom to write fiction, so many of my students came alive. Some of my favorite teaching moments come from a unit that culminated with my students writing an original short story.