Story Starters Objective: This activity allows students to work on typing a creative story. Materials: Computer for each student and word processing software. Procedure: Each student starts at his/her own computer and types their name on the top followed by the story starter. Give them about 5 minutes to type. If they finish typing the starter, they can begin adding to their story. After 5 minutes, have them save their work and move one computer to the right. Allow students about 5 minutes to read the story and add to it. Stress to the students that they should be creative but stay true to the subject matter. Repeat this procedure several times. Before the last student begins, warn them that they need to end the story. Story starters are attached if you would like to use them. You are certainly welcome to create your own to tie in with your curriculum.

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Keyboarding Story Starters

• Jessica looked up at the gray sky and wished it would rain something fun like

marshmallows instead of cold, wet raindrops. Suddenly she felt a soft plop on top of her head. She looked up and she couldn’t believe her eyes! It was…

• Paul had never been to a museum before, so he didn’t quite know what to

expect. That’s why he wasn’t too surprised when one of the statues leaned over and whispered…

• Everyone else said that my teacher was a spy. But when I peeked through her

basement window, I was amazed to see that she was really…

• Long, long ago there lived a tyrannosaurus named Tim, who liked just about everything that started with the letter “t.” He loved teacups, tennis shoes and traffic lights. He liked tap dancing, too. But there was one “t” thing that Tim couldn’t stand…

• Pamela didn’t believe in the Mushroom People until one day she looked at the

ground and noticed a mushroom that had a tiny front door on its stem! Curious, she bent down and pressed the tiny doorbell and…

• Once there was a raccoon who never washed his hands before he ate. All the

other raccoons would wash their hands and even their food before they ate, but not Ricky…

• One day Frieda and Felix woke up, and their bedroom was filled with bubbles.

Where had they come from? They decided to find out. But first, how would they find the door?

• Have you ever heard the story about the hunter who went hunting with crooked

arrows? All his arrows were crooked, and when he shot them…

• The dark side of the moon was especially cold that night. Or was it that day? In any case, the darkness made it hard to find…

• Yesterday, the mailman delivered a huge wooden crate. I heard a strange noise

coming from inside. • My grandpa is one cool dude. Last week he bleached his hair platinum blond.

Last night he showed up at our door wearing a gold hoop earring and…

• A man stopped me on my way home from school. He handed me a thousand dollars and told me use it to make others happy. I think that I will…

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