Writing Prompts

All articles have Newsela writing prompts that students can respond to in the activities panel. Teachers can create their own writing prompts by following these steps:

1. On an article, open the Activities panel by clicking on the Teach this Panel box to the right of the page

2. Scroll down and click View/Edit next to Write Prompt

3. Click Edit to revise the current write prompt 

   1. You can also click Refresh below it to generate a pre-written prompt and copy it into the write prompt field

4. Click Save. 

5. Click Create Assignment to send the article to your students. They will be able to submit their writing responses by completing the Write activity. 
   

   

6. Writing prompt responses can be viewed from the Assignments page. Select an assignment to view all articles within the assignment. Students who have completed a writing response will have a "Score Now" in the "ELA Write Prompt" column. You can select a student's name from this page to bring up individual student activity data. If a student has not yet completed their writing response then a dash will be shown under that column.