Years 2–6: Extraordinary Discoveries Quick Write Prompts
Extraordinary Discoveries Narrative Quick Writes | Visual Writing Prompts with Vocabulary and Sentence Starters | Years 2–6
20 stand-alone visual prompts that get students writing straight away. Each prompt takes an everyday place and hides something extraordinary inside it: a tiny doorway between library books, a dragon on the school bus, an ocean in an old suitcase, a desert pouring out of a washing machine and a boat waiting beyond the lift doors. Each prompt can be used on its own and in any order.
Every slide already includes three vocabulary words and a sentence starter, so there's nothing to prepare. Just display the prompt and start writing.
How the Quick Write Routine Works
Each prompt follows the same simple five-step routine:
- Observe: students study the image and discuss what they notice
- Build: introduce the three vocabulary words and talk about their meanings
- Launch: read the sentence starter together and discuss where the story could go
- Write: students write independently for five minutes
- Challenge: students use all three vocabulary words and keep writing for the full five minutes
Want to adjust the support? Brainstorm extra vocabulary on the whiteboard, link the writing to your current grammar or writing focus, or invite confident writers to create their own opening instead of using the sentence starter.
What's Included?
- Teacher overview and implementation guide
- Consistent Quick Write routine
- 20 narrative visual prompts
- Three vocabulary words and one sentence starter on every prompt
- Five-minute writing reminder and vocabulary challenge
- Google Slides version for classroom display
- Curriculum links to the NSW English K–10 Syllabus (Stages 1–3) and Australian Curriculum v9.0 (Years 2–6)
Perfect For
- Narrative warm-ups and morning work
- Five-minute writing practice to build fluency and stamina
- Oral language and vocabulary discussion
- Introducing and applying Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary
- Collecting low-stakes writing samples
Quick Writes aren't about polished, finished stories. They're for generating ideas, writing continuously and applying skills students have already been taught.
The slides are ready to display and are not editable.
Format: 7-page teacher guide PDF plus Google Slides teaching slides, available to download instantly after purchase.
In your classroom
Pencils moving within a minute of the slide going up, and students reaching for new words in their own writing.
This is a digital resource. You'll get an instant download link by email straight after checkout, and on your order confirmation page.
Yes. Every Hello Primary resource is written by an Australian primary teacher and aligned to the NSW English K–10 Syllabus and the Australian Curriculum v9.0. The curriculum links for this resource are included in the download.
Some Hello Primary resources are editable, such as our Canva frameworks and editable rubrics. If a resource is editable, the description will say so. If it isn't mentioned, the resource isn't editable.
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