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Story Starters
For Beginning
Readers and Writers

Brief Description

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.

Editor's Note: The link above is not currently working (07/10/2008). We will continue to check it in the months ahead to be certain it does not come back to life. For now, here 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

• English
  GRADES K - 12
  NL-ENG.K-12.4 Communication Skills