Maybe these famous titles will give

you ideas for your own stories!

Deep in Outer Space

On a double

decker bus

Lost in a tropical rainforest

Locked inside a

haunted house

At the fair

Stowed away

on a pirate

ship

In a fairytale castle

Camping out

in a scary,

dark forest

Crazy

pirate

Greedy green

monster

Weird teenage

girl Old robot

Mysterious

twins Fierce dragon

Cute fairy Ordinary boy

Cheeky alien Mystery man

Knight in

armour

Oriental

girl

A

colourful

umbrella

A magic

wizard’s

hat

A

magnifying

glass

A lost

school

bag

A

computer

disk

An old

book

A smudged

hand print

A shiny,

red apple

Once upon a time……

Long, long ago……

The alarm clock was ringing……

Many years ago……

The street was empty……

The wind was howling……

When I got up today……

It was snowing heavily…

It was my first day in a new school…

The first thing I remember was…

Where was I?

It was nearly bedtime……

What happened next?

New characters

Conversations

Descriptive language

Where are you going?

Sudden changes

Emotions

Someone gets lost

…happily ever after

…and we all went home

…and he was never seen again

…that was the end of that!