📚 Instructions

Your Task: Choose ONE story starter from the list below and write a narrative story. Use at least 5 of the descriptive words provided for your chosen topic to make your story exciting and detailed!

✨ Story Starters & Descriptive Words

You discover a hidden cave behind a waterfall that no one has ever explored before...

Descriptive words: shadowy, echoing, glistening, treacherous, ancient, mysterious, damp, jagged, sparkling, eerie

On your first day at a new school, you realise that this isn't an ordinary school at all...

Descriptive words: enchanted, peculiar, shimmering, extraordinary, bewildering, magnificent, mystical, floating, glowing, spellbinding

While cleaning out your grandmother's attic, you find a strange device that starts to hum and glow...

Descriptive words: whirring, futuristic, crackling, swirling, vintage, pulsating, metallic, luminous, vibrating, otherworldly

You're walking through the bush when suddenly a native New Zealand bird starts speaking to you...

Descriptive words: chattering, wise, feathered, melodic, intelligent, colourful, graceful, chirping, majestic, communicative

After a storm, you wake up alone on a beautiful but uninhabited island...

Descriptive words: tropical, isolated, pristine, swaying, crystal-clear, scorching, endless, peaceful, untouched, breathtaking

You wake up one morning and discover you have developed an incredible superpower...

Descriptive words: powerful, incredible, unstoppable, heroic, amazing, extraordinary, fearless, mighty, spectacular, invincible

Your family moves into an old Victorian house, and strange things start happening at night...

Descriptive words: creaking, spine-chilling, ghostly, shadowy, haunting, mysterious, bone-chilling, spooky, unsettling, supernatural

While stargazing in your backyard, a strange spacecraft lands nearby...

Descriptive words: gleaming, otherworldly, bizarre, advanced, glowing, silent, smooth, peculiar, fascinating, technological

You drink a strange potion and suddenly shrink to the size of an ant...

Descriptive words: tiny, gigantic, towering, miniature, enormous, microscopic, vast, immense, colossal, overwhelming

While hiking in the mountains, you stumble upon a cave that turns out to be a dragon's home...

Descriptive words: fiery, magnificent, scales, treasure-filled, roaring, majestic, fierce, golden, smoke-filled, legendary

📝 Choose Your Story Starter

🎯 Planning Your Story

1. ___________________ 2. ___________________ 3. ___________________

4. ___________________ 5. ___________________

✍️ Write Your Narrative Story

Remember to:

• Use your chosen story starter as the beginning

• Include at least 5 descriptive words from your chosen topic

• Create interesting characters and dialogue

• Have a clear beginning, middle, and end

• Use paragraphs to organise your ideas