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A Noise in the Night-- Story Starter

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this writing worksheet, students read a scary story starter about hearing a noise in the night. Students write the story on the lines provided.
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Story Starter: The Cat and the Fishbowl

For Students 1st
In this story starter:  the cat and the fishbowl instructional activity, 1st graders look at the picture and write a story about it on the lines below.
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A Halloween to Remember-- Story Starter

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this writing worksheet, students read a suspenseful Halloween story starter which begins with a child running down the street, candy flying everywhere. Students read the story starter and finish the story.
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Story Starter-- Little Green Frog in a Kapok Tree

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
For this writing worksheet, young scholars examine a picture and read a story starter about a little green frog who is at the top of a kapok tree. Students finish the story.
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Pirate Adventure: Story Starter

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this creative writing learning exercise, students first read a short story starter about a pirate adventure. Students finish the story on the lines provided.
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Story Starters For Historical Fiction Story

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students author their own historical fiction stories. In this writing skills lesson, students use the 10 provided story starters to write fiction stories that incorporate facts from history.
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Volcano Story Starter

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this volcano story starter, students read one sentence about some people in a village near a volcano. Students write the rest of the story. Note: the first sentence on this has a grammatical error.
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A Random Act of Kindness-- Story Starter

For Students 4th - 5th
In this writing worksheet students recall a time when they were kind to someone else and how that made them feel. Students read the story starter and finish the story.
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A Noise in the Attic -- Story Starter

For Teachers 5th - 6th
For this writing worksheet, students read the story starter about lying in bed and suddenly hearing a noise in the attic. Students finish the story in their own way.
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The Best Song Ever-- Story Starter

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this writing worksheet, students read a story starter "The best song of all time is..." Students finish the story, telling about their favorite song and why they like it.
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I Have Never Been So Angry

For Students 4th - 5th
In this writing worksheet, students read the story starter which says "I have never been so angry as the time..." Students finish the story.
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A Fond Farewell

For Students 5th - 6th
In this writing worksheet, students read a story starter about a friend who must move away out of town. Students finish the story about how this will affect the friendship.
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Printable Story Starter: The Missing Valentines

For Students 3rd - 4th
A writing prompt about a classroom's missing Valentines allows students to finish the story with their own endings, and to provide their own titles. The lesson comes with a picture and the beginning of the story to full prompt students...
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Adventure Story Starters

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this writing worksheet, students read 6 story starters which would make interesting beginnings for adventure writing. Students choose one or more prompts, write the stories and evaluate themselves using the rubric.
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The Beginning, The Middle, & The End

For Teachers K - 2nd
Cut magazine pictures into three sections, having your youngsters piece the pictures back together. With this fun activity, they discover the importance of sequencing a story. Then they use a fun template (shaped like a burger) to write...
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Did You Know?

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
What would happen if you woke up one day and had become a housefly? What kinds of things would you do? Use the facts at the top of a worksheet to write a paragraph or short story about being a housefly.
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Sentence Starters

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Make your learners' stories the best they can be. Use this resource to help them identify and discuss the importance of an engaging opening for their stories. This presentation goes through a series of tips and examples to help make this...
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Traditional Story Openings

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
The class evaluates whether or not the provided story openings are traditional or not. However, the creator of this presentation focuses on fairy tale openings as traditional, neglecting the fact that several of the chosen openings could...
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Future Careers-- Story Starter

For Students 5th - 6th
In this writing worksheet, students consider their future career choices and decide if they could try any 3 careers what they would be. Students finish the story.
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Story Starters: Life in Thailand

For Students 6th
In this life in Thailand worksheet, 6th graders use sixteen different pictures of life in Thailand as inspiration to  write original stories.
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How Owly And Wormy Became Friends: Using a Silent Comic To Inspire Creative Writing

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students view a wordless comic before using it as a story starter. They access a story that uses the same characters at a website in order to better understand the nature of the characters. They write a story inspired by the comic and...
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Lesson Plan C32: Story Starts

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students write story starters to begin the writing process. In this creative writing lesson, students examine story starters and review the structure of paragraphs. Students create their own story starters that engage readers by setting...
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A Backward Day

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this writing worksheet, students think about what they did yesterday, but tell the events in backwards order from the events at the day's end to the beginning. Students read the story starter and finish the story.
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Airplanes - Story Starter

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this story starter worksheet, students complete a story starter about being a pilot. Students write about where they could go and what would happen next.

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