So glad you enjoyed the post. I’ve had really good results when using photos to prompt my writing. I love old photos especially, or just pictures of people in general.

Good luck with your teaching!

Carrie thanks for posting this article. I did not think that I was the only one that used photos, in my case ones that I have taken, as the source materials for my writing. I did it for the simple fact that it combines two things that I really enjoy, writing and photography – though I am not claiming a great deal of proficiency in either.

As an English teacher, I use this method in a couple of my courses as a way to get students writing. I also tell them repeatedly that it is easiest, initially, to write from a basis of “what you know” or about topics of which you have a practical knowledge; as this makes it easier to come up with the descriptive terms to illustrate your writing. I use examples of some of the things that I have written in the past. It is quite amazing what students will come up with when given those particular prompts.

I am now off to several of the other of your poster’s sites to check out some of their work. Again thanks for posting this article.