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Story Starters

The topic of getting students to write came up one day in our discussion group - 5/6 Connection - and wonderful ideas were shared. I took the liberty of copying down some of the story starters that teachers use to compel their students to write. Here are some of those starters which may help get your students into writing.

1. I never expected that one day I'd open my closet and find.......

2. It was obviously going to be an unusual day when my mom came into my bedroom and said.....

3. The spaceship began to tumble out of control and there was only one person to save the mission......

4. The waves crashed across the sand and I knew......

5. It's lost! What could I do now that.....

6. She was a funny old lady, but I knew she had come to tell me.....

7. It was my best friend's deepest secret and it would be a hard one to keep.......

8. The castle stood at the top of the hill, close enough to see that in a high window stood.....

9. Goats, sheep, and chickens belong on the farm, not in the middle of........

10. He was afraid, but he called upon all the courage he had as.......

11. Late one night the neighbor knocked on the front door and asked..........

12. Something brushed up against my foot, and my surprise turned to horror as I looked down and saw.....

13. It's hard to know what a computer will do when you plug it in during a thunder storm....

14. This was it. The moment I had dreaded for two weeks. The moment when......

15. The day began with a green sky, the three moons circling above were a strange orange, and on the horizon was a...............

16. If this was the truth, then the truth was wrong because......

17. He didn't look like a genius, he looked more like......

18. It was Christmas morning, but I was not anxious to......

19. If time could stand still , or even go backwards, I would......

20. The horse pawed restlessly at the ground, a beast eagerly waiting for.....

21. The communicator lay silent in his hand and he realized he had lost contact with.....

22. Three seconds left on the scoreboard clock -- only three seconds before......

23. She was peering through the window, counting the cars that went by, searching and wondering ........

24. Her eyes were glazed with the fever that had come to so many in the village, making her......

25. Today is the day I turn myself into a new person, a person who.......

26. For the most part, Grandpa was a gentle man who liked best of all to.......

27. The boy appeared at the door of the cabin, looking .......

28. It was a weird thing, hairy and smelly and limp, but I loved it because......

29. The wind whipped around the corner, moaning and warning me that.....

30. It was quiet....too quiet. That could only mean that.........