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Here are some of our favorite writing prompts for Year 5, which have been created to encourage your learners to work on text complexity and think more critically about specific events!

Sentence Story Starters

Adverb story starters, morals and values, general prompts.

Story starters are perfect for generating writing ideas and enhancing story-writing skills. These prompts help students quickly engage with their imagination, making the process of creating stories easy and enjoyable.

• Her eyes opened and once again she had no idea where she was. Where had her powers taken her this time?
• He looked out across the deserted island as he clung tight to the small bag of his last possessions…
• She stepped out of the time machine wondering…
• The day began with an uneasy feeling in the back of Alex’s mind…
• As she unpacked her school bag, Lucy discovered that her organisers were filled with mysterious notes…

Adverb story starters are great for generating story ideas and engaging children in the writing process. These prompts help children create short stories by providing dynamic openings that inspire creativity and imagination, making the writing process more enjoyable and effective.

• Quickly, the friends ran across…
• Suddenly, the ground shook under their feet…
• Curiously, she inched forwards and took hold of the door handle…
• Wisely, the boy crouched down so he could not be seen…
• Gracefully, the swan glided over the lake as ten-year-old Florence watched…

Explore scientific concepts while also sharpening your child’s writing skills with these science FAQ’s. This is a great way to practice more academic writing as your child progresses through primary school.

• How has the surface of the Earth changed overtime?
• Why does the sun rise and set each day?
• What are stars?
• What does the word ‘science’ mean to you?
• Which scientific invention do you think has been the most important to date?

Thinking about morals and values helps children explore important themes through their writing. This writing task can be based on a historical figure or event, allowing students to explore topics like kindness, courage, forgiveness, generosity, and inspiration.

• Write a story where someone shows kindness towards others.
• Write about a courageous person in the face of danger.
• Write a story about someone displaying forgiveness.
• Write a story about generosity.
• Write an inspirational story.

General prompts are excellent for sparking creativity and improving writing skills. General prompts help students quickly engage with an idea, making writing more enjoyable and effective for everyone.

• If you had your own airplane, where would you go?
• What would happen if you had a dinosaur in your back garden?
• If you could go back in time, where would you go and which famous person you meet?
• Write about something you learned from your favorite book.
• Imagine you could see into the future. How would you use this superpower?

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Looking for powerful Labor Day lesson plans and resources? Help students understand the history of the labor movement and its current relevance at home and around the world. Checkout NewsHour's website Journalism in Action on how journalists covered the role of civic engagement in U.S. history, including units on Exploitation: Labor and Immigration and the Muckrakers .

1. Lesson plan: Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire and migrant farm workers

Take a look at these primary sources of the tragic Triangle Shirtwaist factory of 1911 and the hardships migrant workers have faced in the U.S. for decades. Be sure to check out the political cartoon activity that follows the lesson above here .

Screenshot of New-York Tribune. March 26, 1911 via Journalism in Action

Screenshot from New-York Tribune. March 26, 1911 via PBS NewsHour Classroom's Journalism in Action

2. Lesson Plan: Dolores Huerta — a lifetime of activism

Learn about Dolores Huerta’s role as a labor leader, organizer and activist beginning with the California grape strike and boycott in 1965.

Press conference with the UFW leadership, Dolores Huerta, Richard César Chávez, and Rick Tejada-Flores, 1972. Photo Credit: Farmworker Movement Documentation Project

3. Lesson plan: How the Amazon Labor Union was formed

Learn more about the Amazon Labor Union (ALU) and the role of the news media in covering unionizing efforts.

“This campaign should be the most talked about campaign in the country. … We’re talking about workers. Workers from the bottom who have nothing.” — Christian Smalls, president, Amazon Labor Union

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4. Mini-lessons on the muckrakers and the Progressive Era

Using Journalism in Action , NewsHour Classroom's website on the history of journalism in America, take a closer look at the harsh conditions facing workers in the U.S. as reported by the muckrakers (journalists in the Progressive Era who exposed corruption and wrongdoing in business, housing and factories at the turn of the 19th century).

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5. Lesson Plan: Role of labor unions today and in the past

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6. Student activity: For Labor Day, explore this labor/management negotiation scenario

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Supporters of the California Grape Boycott demonstrate in Toronto, Ontario, December, 1968. Credit: "United Farm Workers Collection, Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University

7. Student activity: The global effort in making a t-shirt

NPR’s Planet Money decided to make a t-shirt and follow the process of its creation around the globe. This lesson plan takes your class along for the ride by interspersing activities with NPR’s exciting video tour around the world.

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