Millgrove Seniors

Sizzling Story Starters

The Seniors have been working on creating sizzling starters for their narratives, focusing on improving their writing by adding more description and beginning with onomatopoeia, dialogue, action or thought. The Millgrove Seniors have chosen their favourite attention-grabbing starters to share.

  “l time travelled into 1914 and l stopped the war,” l said.  

Will E

“Mum, I have your coffee,” I said while holding her coffee. 

“Thank you, Jasmine,” Mum said.  

Jasmine

“Hello,” said the tiger. 

Will said, “What’s your name, Tiger? 

“My name is Chloe,” said the tiger. 

All of a sudden, the tiger bit Will. Will had to go to the hospital. 

Chloe

The hammer head shark swam into the pool with the little girl. 

Abi

Vroom Vrooooommmm….. I woke up with a fright! A motorbike was revving in the driveway! 

William M

Jayne was driving a car erratically down the road, because she didn’t care about driver’s licenses. 

Steven

Bang! A tiger escaped the zoo in a rush. 

Monique

“Hey! That was my pancake!” decided Tim. 

“Well, it’s absolutely not because I got it,” corrected Tam. 

“I’m stealing that right now!” said Tim. 

“No!” pleaded Tam. 

Raven

A car grew legs and arms and eyes, then started waking up. The car was breaking the walls in every place in the school. 

Jack

“Hello, it's time to go to the Mother’s Day stall,” Ms Clarke said. 

“But I don’t want to. It's raining,” Jake answered. 

“But you have too,” Ms Clarke told Jake. 

“Then I will go now,” Jake replied. 

Jake