Bold Beginnings

• English
• Primary Education
• Age 10

Bold Beginnings

Would this beginning hook you in?

1. Once upon a time in a far away land there was a man.
2. 'How dare you!' a voice whispered in outrage behind me. I froze still, I had check I was alone when I snuck in the window.
3. One day there was a lady who went to a forest.
4. The man walked up the hill to his house.

Think of a good book you've read.
How did the author hook you in?

What other ways do
writer's use to hook
in their readers?

What do you think?

Once upon a time in a far away place there was a little girl and a boy who could not find their most treasured possesion.

no one seemed to hear it but me but 

there was that sound again 

Crreeaaakkk

tap, tap

surely that can't be true

What ways can you make a boring sentence interesting?

Last Saturday at 10pm the local bakery was broken into and all the donuts were stolen. Can you make the beginning of this newspaper article interesting?