Open this page any school morning and the prompt has changed. There is no list to pick from and no archive to dig through, because everyone opening it that morning gets the same prompt. That is the point. It gives your class something to argue about that the class next door is arguing about too.
Every prompt starts with something true, and the source is on the board next to it. There is no account, no email, no login and no app. It is one page, and it is free.
There are thirteen more sets like this on the site: a year of Do Nows, summary writing, sentence starters, transition words, literary devices, and quote banks for Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Frankenstein, Jekyll and Hyde, A Christmas Carol and Gatsby. Same terms, all free.
Long Story Short gives you one real news sentence. You cut it down to five of its own words, and what is left has to still be the story. Two minutes, a new one every day, nothing to sign into. Same muscle as the writing above, worked from the other end.
Play today’s Long Story Short