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Leads

Leads. A great way to start writing!. What is a good lead??. The beginning of your story. catches the reader’s attention. makes your reader want to read on. makes the writer want to write more!!. Dialogue (Talking) Sound Effect (Onomatopoeia) Ask A Question Set-up

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Leads

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  1. Leads A great way to start writing!

  2. What is a good lead?? The beginning of your story catches the reader’s attention makes your reader want to read on makes the writer want to write more!!

  3. Dialogue (Talking) Sound Effect (Onomatopoeia) Ask A Question Set-up Action Lead (Exciting Verbs!) Snapshot of a Small Moment Flashback (describe a past event) LEADS

  4. Dialogue “Wake up!” my mom shouted. Uses quotation marks “ and ”

  5. Sound Effect (Onomatopoeia) Thwack! was all we heard in the baseball field that day. Thump. Thump. Thump. I woke up startled.

  6. Question Have you ever been late on the first day of school?

  7. Set-up There once was a girl who lived with seven sisters. OR The kitten was always into trouble. State something about the main character.

  8. Action Lead I jumped out of bed, raced to the closet and threw on an outfit.

  9. Snapshot of a small Moment My eyelids slowly opened and I wondered why it was so bright. I gasped and reached for my clock.

  10. Flashback I have only slept in once, but it turned out to be one of the worst mistakes I’ve made!

  11. Ready for a quiz? Guess the lead!

  12. There was a coyote who swallowed a flea. Action Lead

  13. Dialogue Lead

  14. Brrrriiiiiing! The telephone ring made me jump. Sound Effect

  15. The girl was late getting home for supper. Action Lead

  16. I looked at the long dirt road that crawled across the plains, remembering the morning Mama died. They had come for her in a wagon and taken her away. Flashback Lead

  17. Hello little mouse, what are you doing? Question Lead

  18. Jack and Annie were walking home from the grocery store. Action Lead

  19. Outside the Beast’s castle, snowflakes swirled. Snapshot of Small Moment

  20. Set-up Every morning, Skippyjon Jones woke up with the birds and this did not please his mother at all.

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