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40 quality images to use as speech or story starters

By: Susan Dugdale 

Have you ever used picture prompts as starters for impromptu speeches?

No?

Then you'll be delighted to discover just how effective using an image can be.

That familiar saying, 'a picture speaks a thousand words', is backed by thousands of centuries of story telling. The first verifiable instance we know about are the drawings found on the walls of pre-historic caves.

(Read this UK Guardian article if you'd like to find out more: Earliest known cave art by modern humans found in Indonesia.)

We are not so different from our ancestors.

Picture prompts for creative writing grade 2

Pictures fulfill exactly same function for us as they did for them. They connect. They invoke feeling and they tell stories.

40 printable picture prompts

Along with guidelines for five activities using pictures as starters, I've included a printable to downl