Keyboarding Story Starters

Select a story starter from the following list and write a one-page completion to the story in your computer word processing program. Be sure to check your work carefully before printing.

• 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 ...
• Penny looked up at the grey 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 Mrs. Lawrence was a spy. But when the Thomas twins peeked through her basement window, they were 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 lived 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 ...