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  1. 144 Picture Prompts to Inspire Student Writing

    Write a short story, poem or memoir inspired by this illustration. Related Picture Prompt Glenn Harvey. Trapped Inside. Wilderness Wayfaring. Magical Chores. I'm Sorry. Dollar Bills. Dinosaurs ...

  2. Over 140 Picture Prompts to Inspire Student Writing

    Since 2016, we've been featuring these images in our daily Picture Prompts: short, image-driven posts that invite a variety of kinds of student writing. Teachers tell us they use these prompts ...

  3. 145 Picture Prompts to Inspire Student Writing

    These short, accessible, image-driven prompts invite students to pen short stories, poems and memoirs; share experiences from their lives; analyze illustrations, graphs and charts; and tell us ...

  4. Photo Essay

    6. Include Captions or Text (Optional) Write captions to provide context, add depth, or explain the significance of each photo. Keep text concise and impactful, letting the images remain the focus. 7. Present Your Photo Essay. Choose a platform for presentation, whether online, in a gallery, or as a printed booklet.

  5. How to Create a Photo Essay: Step-by-Step Guide With Examples

    Photo essays tell a story in pictures, and there are many different ways to style your own photo essay. With a wide range of topics to explore, a photo essay can be thought-provoking, emotional, funny, unsettling, or all of the above, but mostly, they should be unforgettable. Articles. Videos. Instructors. Explore. Articles;

  6. 150 Inspiring Picture Writing Prompts (Free Google Slides)

    We rounded up a whole collection of intriguing images to help kids in grades K-12 along. Plus we designed a set of free Google Slides featuring all of the prompts so you can easily share them with students. Tip: Start by showing students the picture (or let them choose from among several) without making any comment about what they're seeing.

  7. 33 Writing Photo Essays

    Writing, Revising, and Editing. After students have gathered information and images for their photo essays, lead them through "Writing a Draft." Then give them time to put their first drafts together. When the time comes to revise, have students use the questions under "Revising" to improve their work.

  8. 20 Prompts for Photo-Inspired Writing in Secondary ELA

    Photos can be used to prompt personal narratives, persuasive essays, creative pieces, op-eds, thematic analysis, and more! They also drive high-interest discussions about the world and our personal experiences. Consider using photos from current events in the news, famous historical events, or the most beautiful photos from the year.

  9. Photo Essay

    On average, a photo essay contains between five and ten images to express the photo essay ideas. The photos begin with an overview of the town of Minamata, a coastal city in Japan. The individual ...

  10. 18 Immersive Photo Essay Examples & Tips

    5. Place Over Time. View the "At Home in the Ozarks" photo essay by Kylee Cole. If you want to document changes and show how the streets, buildings, and parks in your city change over time, select your favorite locations and start to visit them regularly to capture the way they look during different seasons. 6.

  11. 23 Photo Essay Ideas and Examples (to Get Your Creative Juices Flowing!)

    Here are some handy essay ideas and examples for inspiration! 1. A day in the life. Your first photo essay idea is simple: Track a life over the course of one day. You might make an essay about someone else's life. Or the life of a location, such as the sidewalk outside your house.

  12. How to Make a Photo Essay: 5 Tips for Impactful Results

    1. Find a topic you care about. Every good photo essay should start with an idea. Otherwise, you'll be shooting without a purpose - and while such an approach may eventually lead to an interesting series of photos, it's far, far easier to begin with a topic and only then take out your camera. As I emphasized above, a photo essay can be ...

  13. Pictures That Tell Stories: Photo Essay Examples

    Famous Photo Essays. "The Great Depression" by Dorothea Lange - Shot and arranged in the 1930s, this famous photo essay still serves as a stark reminder of The Great Depression and Dust Bowl America. Beautifully photographed, the black and white images offer a bleak insight to one of the country's most difficult times.

  14. What is a Photo Essay? 9 Photo Essay Examples You Can Recreate

    4. Event Photo Essay. Events are happening in your local area all the time, and they can make great photo essays. With a little research, you can quickly find many events that you could photograph. There may be bake sales, fundraisers, concerts, art shows, farm markets, block parties, and other non profit event ideas.

  15. How to Create an Engaging Photo Essay (+ Examples)

    Take your time. A great photo essay is not done in a few hours. You need to put in the time to research it, conceptualizing it, editing, etc. That's why I previously recommended following your passion because it takes a lot of dedication, and if you're not passionate about it - it's difficult to push through. 4.

  16. 17 Awesome Photo Essay Examples You Should Try Yourself

    Top 17 Photo Essay Examples. Here are some fantastic ideas to get you inspired to create your own photo essays! 17. Photograph a Protest. Protests tend to be lively events. You will find people standing, moving, and holding banners and signs. This is a great way to practice on a moving crowd.

  17. 85+ Picture Writing Prompts For Kids (+ Free Printable)

    Here are a number of ways you can use these picture writing prompts to spark your imagination: Descriptive Writing: Directly describe everything you see in extreme detail. You could even go beyond the physical appearance of things, and explore your other senses, such as smell, hear, feel and taste.

  18. 300 Questions and Images to Inspire Argument Writing

    19. Snail Mail: Do you think handwritten cards and letters still have value in the digital age? 20. Cyberbullying: Should social media companies do more to prevent online harassment? 21. Phone ...

  19. 32 Photo Essay Examples (Plus Tips)

    School: Think about capturing a series of photos set in schools or other educational institutions. Potential subjects include after-school activities, classrooms around the world or time-lapse photo essays at a particular school. Cultures: Consider using your photo essay to explore a different culture. You can take pictures of culturally ...

  20. How to Make a Photo Essay (with Pictures)

    7. Include a clincher. This image may not be apparent to you in the beginning, but most photographers say they know it when they see it. It's an image that wraps up the essay for the viewer. This image should say "the end," give a call to action, or show the end result of a day in the life or how to sequence.

  21. Google Images

    Google Images. The most comprehensive image search on the web.

  22. APA Style for beginners: High school, college, and beyond

    Writing resource. Details. Paper Format. Guidelines for setting up your paper, including the title page, font, and sample papers. Reference Examples. More than 100 reference examples of various types, including articles, books, reports, films, social media, and webpages

  23. How To Keep Your Kids' First-Day-Of-School Photos Safe Online

    Taking a photo of your kid on the first day of school is a popular ritual, as evidenced by all the sweet smiling faces you might be seeing on Instagram right now. But according to legal and security experts, parents would ideally not share these images online at all. "I think people need to ...

  24. First Day of School 2024-25

    A collection of first-day-of-school photos captures the excitement of a new beginning and the sense of anticipation as students, accompanied by school staff, start the 2024-2025 school year. First Day of School 2024-25 | Fairfax County Public Schools

  25. As a Teenager in Europe, I Went to Nudist Beaches All the Time. 30

    Indeed, I felt the same way. My relationship with toplessness was part of a very democratic cultural status quo. If every woman on the beaches of the Mediterranean—from the sexy girls tanning on ...

  26. California nudist ranch: Man arrested in deaths of missing couple ...

    Police have arrested a man at a nudist resort and are holding him on charges of murder in the deaths of a couple missing all week, authorities in Redlands, California, said Friday morning.

  27. A Year of Picture Prompts: Over 160 Images to Inspire Writing

    Below, we've categorized the 160+ prompts we published during the 2016-17 school year based on the type of writing they primarily encourage students to do. All are still open for comment. Plus ...

  28. Zimmerman School faculty present research papers during International

    Four faculty members from the Zimmerman School of Advertising and Mass Communications recently presented research papers during the 74th Annual International Communication Association (ICA), which took place in June. The ICA aims to advance the scholarly study of human communication by encouraging and facilitating excellence in academic research worldwide.

  29. Northwestern med school scrapes photos of Arab students in keffiyehs

    Northwestern University's medical school scrubbed photos of some Arab students from several social media platforms, a campus group said.

  30. Westmoor Student's Stock Market Essay Wins State Contest

    According to a news release, Anthony placed first in the state of Illinois in the Elementary School Division of the Spring 2024 InvestWrite national essay competition.