Butterfly Park Educational Materials

Chapter Book Story Starters for Grades K-2.  Encourage beginning writers to practice handwriting, spelling, and punctuation skills as they write full-length stories.8 Chapter Book Story Starters help jump start beginning writers by providing them the structure to shape their creative ideas.  Story Starters give young authors a format for writing the beginning, middle, and end of their story.

Chapter headings for each story spark students' imagination for formulating a problem and designing a resolution.  They allow space to develop a setting and characters while providing room for illlustrations. 

Young authors enjoy sharing books they have written.  They enjoy hearing how other students developed problems and solutions starting with the same chapter headings.

Includes: Teaching suggestions for character development, plot, conflict resolution, conclusion, use of quotation marks, and illustrations (including 2 maps), as well as suggestions for author sharings.

Chapter Book Story Starters is packaged with loose sheets to make reproduction in your copier faster and easier.