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Teacher's Guide

Daily Ten Prompts are designed to spark impromptu thoughts and ideas, given a short amount of time (ten minutes).

Mega-Prompts offer a larger base of ideas and probing questions for the given topic, helping to uncover related issues and personal background knowledge.

Ted Talk Tens provide a springboard for the exploration and expression of student thoughts and ideas in response to content from related TED Talk material. This resource is targeted more to older students (high school / adult learner).


Today in History offer students more choice with less prompt. Important events, thought provoking memorials, and fun celebrations are noted each day.

Timed Writings engage learners in a carefully crafted exercise designed to improve fluency of both thought and pen.


Tutorials help in the construction of a 5 paragraph essay. This screencast is followed by a model writing passage in response to the given prompt that can be studied and dissected by everyone involved in the learning process. 


Some Final Thoughts
Establishing a program that helps a student love writing, while producing quality content is not easy. A "daily writing prompt" has been the first step toward making it happen in my classroom.

As a coach, I preached the importance of preparation to my runners. Training "smart" and "having fun" made the whole experience more effective and rewarding for everyone. I think you will agree that these same principles apply to classroom instruction.
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Quality writing effectively expresses how a person feels, or thinks, in response to any given topic.  This doesn't just happen, but requires consistent and meaningful "time on task"...  the aim and focus of our Daily Writing Prompt website.  

Personal improvement (output) is usually a direct function of quality time on task (input). Consistent and meaningful writing practice helps balance both sides of this equation, resulting in positive achievement gains in all areas.


Best Wishes,  Coach Hart      
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