Narrative Beginnings
Grade 2 - Writing - Building Confidence
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Which opening sentence best starts a story about Jada at the art table?
- After that, she rinsed the brush.
- Jada set three paint cups on the art table.
- Art is fun.
- Jada liked the color blue.
Choose the beginning that gives both a character and a setting.
- The painting dried by the window.
- Art is fun.
- Jada set three paint cups on the art table.
- After that, she rinsed the brush.
Read this story plan: Omar is at the bus stop and his lunch bag tears open. Which sentence makes the problem clear at the start?
- Omar kept his sandwich safe all day.
- Omar was there.
- Next, the bus turned the corner.
- The bottom of Omar's lunch bag split at the bus stop.
Which first sentence would make a reader want to keep reading?
- Jada made art.
- A blue river of paint raced toward Jada's paper.
- Art is fun.
- After that, she rinsed the brush.
The story starts too late: "Then Lena asked her teacher for another seed packet." Which sentence should come before it?
- Lena liked plants and sunshine.
- Then she watered the tiny leaves.
- Lena looked under the bench and found nothing.
- It was a day.