Toasted Cheese provides a different writing prompt for every day.  It may give you some bright ideas.

Writers Workshop Schedule

 
Mini-lessons - whole group. Explicit instruction on a specific writing technique taught in a short 5-10 minute period which students will be expected to apply during their independent writing practice..

4 types of mini-lessons:

• Procedures & Routines
• Strategies
• Skills
• Author's Craft

Independent Writing

• Students write daily.
• Students determine the topics they will write about.
• Students use a writer’s journal.
• Students are self-paced.
• Teacher’s role: monitor, encourage, conference, and support.
• “When you’re done, you’ve just begun.”

Conference during independent writing time.

• Students seek responses from their partners.
• Teachers conference with individual students and/or small groups.

Sharing is done with the whole group to end the Writer’s Workshop.

• This is an integral part to the writer’s workshop.
• Students are given opportunities to share their writing, highlight strategies, share literature  and/or share an idea from their writer’s jounal. 
• This time also allows for students to practice presenting to a group.