Kickoff Activity

Use the image on the next slide to �answer your choice of any of the following questions.

1. What do you think is happening in this story?
2. How do you think the characters are related?
3. What do you think they are feeling?
4. Where do you think they are? What city or country? Inside or outside?
5. What might happen next in the story?
6. What do you think happened before the story began?

Kickoff Activity

Image accessed from Drawn Together by Minh Lȇ

Kickoff Activity

Now, look at the image on the next slide and answer your choice of any of the following questions.

• Where do you think the characters are?
• What do you think they were doing before what happens in the story?
• What might the characters’ names and ages be?
• What is the mood of the story (happy, sad, etc.)?
• When do you think the story takes place?
• How do you think the story will end?

Kickoff Activity

Image accessed from �The Aquanaut by Minh Lȇ

Now, I’m going to tell you a secret!

Shhh! Are you ready to hear it?

What you wrote to answer those �questions could be the start of a great story!

See how easy and fun becoming an author can be?�We can’t wait to see what you’ll write next!