Fiction
Picture Prompts
Use one these images to write a story. You may wish to use some of the given vocabulary in your story. Don't forget to consider the following:
- An engaging opening to hook the reader.
- Vary your sentence openers EG. adverbs and adverbial phrases.
- Create complex sentences by using subordinating conjunctions and relative clauses.
- Include simple sentences for effect.
- Include direct speech.
- Include descriptive detail.
- Figurative language: simile, metaphor, personification.
- Include a range of punctuation.
Tell me a story
Story Openers
Use one of these openers to write a story:
- Sam woke with a start. He lay in the darkness and listened. What had woken him?
- Kim could feel her heart racing as she stared at herself in the mirror.
- "Surprise!" They cried, leaping out from behind the door.
- With a sudden rush of panic, I realised that I had no idea where I was!