Story Starters Teaching Resources for Year 5
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Topic Sentence Starter Examples Slideshow
Spark creativity with this topic sentence starter examples slideshow that provides your students with writing prompts across three writing genres.
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Daily Writing Prompts Calendars - Upper Primary
Inspire your students and encourage them to write regularly with a set of printable Daily Writing Prompts in calendar format.
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Write a Short Story – Adventure in Space
Get your students analysing and writing adventure in space stories with this engaging and fully scaffolded writing project booklet.
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Genre of the Month - Writing Prompt Grids (Upper)
Introduce your students to a variety of writing genres with our printable genre-specific writing prompt grids.
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Write a Short Story – The Quest
Get your students analysing and writing a quest story with this engaging and fully scaffolded writing project booklet.
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Roll an Adventure Story - Storytelling Dice Game
Roll and write an adventure story during Book Week using our Roll An Adventure Storytelling Game.
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5 Narrative Writing Stimulus Sheets
Writing stimulus sheets with a narrative focus.
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Inspiring Story Starters Task Cards
Get your students writing inspiring stories with this set of story starter task cards.
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Narrative Paragraph Topic Sentences – Digital Template
Discover narrative paragraph topic ideas designed to inspire creativity and help students confidently write engaging narrative paragraphs.
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Roll to Create a Silly Book Title – Differentiated Writing Activity
Print a differentiated literacy activity using dice and a chart to create a silly book title and storybook.
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Gold Miners' Bulletin Project
A creative writing newspaper project in which students design and write the front page of an imagined newspaper from the Australian Gold Rush era.
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Narrative Setting Circularama Templates
A set of circular diorama templates that combine to create three scenes.
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Write a Short Story – The Tale of Transformation
Get your students analysing and writing a story with a lesson with this engaging and fully scaffolded writing project booklet.
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Plan Your Own Adventure - Writing Template
Students use a template to help them plan stories with alternative pathways for their friends to read.
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Write a Short Story – The Discovery or Invention
Get your students analysing and writing an invention story with this engaging and fully scaffolded writing project booklet.
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Write a Short Story – Overcoming Obstacles
Get your students analysing and writing overcoming obstacles short stories with this engaging and fully scaffolded writing project booklet.
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Magical Story Starters Task Cards
Get your students writing magical stories with this set of story starter task cards.
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Picture Writing Prompts
Introducing the perfect picture writing prompts to encourage creative writing in your primary students! Explore 60 visual prompts made just for the primary classroom.