Story Starters

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  • October 22, 2009 at 5:02 pm
    havefaithplease
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    Hello Ladies!

    It’s been awhile since I’ve posted.  Our computer crashed about a month ago and we had to wait to get it replaced.  But I’m back online again!  Yeah!

     

    I have a question.  I’m wanting to start doing story starters with my boys.  I would like to at some point purchase Karen Andreolas book on this.  But for now am not able.  So I’m looking for other ideas.  I’m having a complete mind blank on coming up with ideas for story starters of my own.  Embarassed  I think that my two boys would love to do this.  I’m just needing ideas to get them going.

    thanks so much!

    Carrie

    October 22, 2009 at 8:15 pm
    mrsjamiesouth
    Member

    Why don’t you take books they love and ask them to change the ending?  Like Charlotte’s Web or Pinnochio.

    October 23, 2009 at 1:43 am
    nerakr
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    Your post reminded me of something I saw on abcteach.com called “First Sentences.” Basically, you write the first sentence of a novel and have the student write a story from it. The idea is to compare it to the original. I think the exercise was supposed to be done before the book was read, but I suppose you could use a book they’ve already read. How many first sentences do you remember of the books you’ve read, anyway?

    HTH,

    Karen

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