Young writers can contemplate a cartoon zombie's brain while they write a creative story. The theme is Halloween and the issue is that the writer invited real monsters to his or her party. Big mistake! Or was it?

Concepts

monsters, story starters, Writing Prompts, halloween, Holidays

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Additional Tags

halloween, story starter, monster, writing prompt, english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Let your learners come up with what followed this monstrous decision

Pros

• Cartoon image is high quality and paired with a sentence starter in a fun font
• The lines are wide enough for younger writers

Cons

• For some, the story starter will not be enough support; allow partner brainstorming or provide sentence frames to help out those individuals