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Story Starters
For Beginning
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Subjects: Arts & Humanities: Language Arts
Grades: Pre-K, K-2

Brief Description


Students dictate or write stories in response to 15 story starters designed to develop language skills.

Objectives

Students

  • respond to a story starters about a dinosaur, present, pet store, puppy or another topic of interest to primary-grade students.

Keywords

story starter, language, dictation, dinosaur, pet

Materials Needed

  • printable work sheets from the Web site referenced in the Lesson Plan section below

Lesson Plan

Each of the story starters at the Language Development site contains an illustration, the first few words of a story, and space for writing an ending. These story starters can be found at Language Activities, 3-5 Years.

Following are some additional resources that might prove helpful to you.

Story It
  • Picture Prompt Story Starters
  • Story Starters

    Pencil Pete's Story Starters
  • The Homework Machine
  • Alien Vistors
  • Don't Let Go!

    Goodnight Stories
    These stories can be completed online, or simply used "as is" to encourage writing.
  • Not a Normal Zoo Day
  • Mr. Finkle's Cat
  • More...

    • Assessment

    Students will share their stories with their classmates.

    Lesson Plan Source

    Early Childhood Development Guide and Activities

    National Standards

    LANGUAGE ARTS

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    Originally published 01/11/2002
    Last updated 06/02/2010