These story starters are a lot of fun and will definitely lead to some truly imaginative storylines. They are designed to stimulate the minds of the students and provide that prompt that is regularly needed. These will put an end to students complaining about a lack of writing inspiration.
Create and edit short imaginative, informative and persuasive written and/or multimodal texts for familiar audiences, using text structure appropriate to purpose, simple and compound sentences, noun groups and verb groups, topic-specific vocabulary, simple punctuation and common 2-syllable words
Create and edit literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings
Create and edit imaginative texts, using or adapting language features, characters, settings, plot structures and ideas encountered in literary texts
Create and edit literary texts, experimenting with figurative language, storylines, characters and settings from texts students have experienced
Create literary texts using realistic and fantasy settings and characters that draw on the worlds represented in texts students have experienced
Create literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings
Create imaginative texts based on characters, settings and events from students’ own and other cultures using visual features, for example perspective, distance and angle
Create short imaginative, informative and persuasive texts using growing knowledge of text structures and language features for familiar and some less familiar audiences, selecting print and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose
Plans, composes and reviews a small range of simple texts for a variety of purposes on familiar topics for known readers and viewers
Composes texts using letters of consistent size and slope and uses digital technologies
Plans, composes and reviews a range of texts that are more demanding in terms of topic, audience and language
Thinks imaginatively, creatively and interpretively about information, ideas and texts when responding to and composing texts
Thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information and ideas and identifies connections between texts when responding to and composing texts
Composes, edits and presents well-structured and coherent texts
Uses an integrated range of skills, strategies and knowledge to read, view and comprehend a wide range of texts in different media and technologies
Analyses representations of ideas in literature through genre and theme that reflect perspective and context, argument and authority, and adapts these representations when creating texts
Understands and effectively uses Tier 1, taught Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary to extend and elaborate ideas
Applies phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling words in a range of writing contexts
Uses initial and extended phonics, including vowel digraphs, trigraphs to decode and encode words when reading and creating texts
Plans, creates and revises texts written for different purposes, including paragraphs, using knowledge of vocabulary, text features and sentence structure
Uses a legible, fluent and automatic handwriting style, and digital technology, including word-processing applications, when creating texts
Understands and responds to literature by creating texts using similar structures, intentional language choices and features appropriate to audience and purpose
Analyses representations of ideas in literature through narrative, character, imagery, symbol and connotation, and adapts these representations when creating texts
Selects digital technologies to suit audience and purpose to create texts
Sustains a legible, fluent and automatic handwriting style
Automatically applies taught phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling in a range of contexts, and justifies spelling strategies used to spell unfamiliar words
Plans, creates and revises written texts for multiple purposes and audiences through selection of text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language
Extends Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, morphological analysis and generating precise definitions for specific contexts
Communicates to wide audiences with social and cultural awareness, by interacting and presenting, and by analysing and evaluating for understanding
Identifies and describes how ideas are represented in literature and strategically uses similar representations when creating texts
Uses digital technologies to create texts
Selects, applies and describes appropriate phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling in a range of contexts
Plans, creates and revises written texts for persuasive purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience
Plans, creates and revises written texts for informative purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience
Plans, creates and revises written texts for imaginative purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience
Communicates with familiar audiences for social and learning purposes, by interacting, understanding and presenting
Understand, interpret and experiment with sound devices and imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, in narratives, shape poetry, songs, anthems and odes
Create literary texts using realistic and fantasy settings and characters that draw on the worlds represented in texts students have experienced
Create literary texts that experiment with structures, ideas and stylistic features of selected authors
Create literary texts that explore students’ own experiences and imagining
Create literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings
Create texts that adapt language features and patterns encountered in literary texts
Create imaginative texts based on characters, settings and events from students’ own and other cultures including through the use of visual features
Construct texts featuring print, visual and audio elements using software, including word processing programs
Reread and edit text for spelling, sentence-boundary punctuation and text structure
Create short imaginative, informative and persuasive texts using growing knowledge of text structures and language features for familiar and some less familiar audiences, selecting print and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose