In 5/6M during Teacher-Led Writing Inquiries, we have explored powerful opening sentences to hook reader attention. We would like to share some of them with you:

‘Screens were advertising the real world, certain things were pixels and the world was a game!’ Oscar Martin

‘She was watching leaves fall, studying the patterns they made as they whirled in the icy wind.’ Dakota Wilson

‘But…plot twist! He had the chicken pox!’ Alexis Challenger

‘He decimated them and then put them in animatronic bodies.’ Dallas Kerslake

‘With a voice like an angel sliding down a rainbow eating fairy floss.’ Lexie Maple-Brown

‘Ilana, being 15, thought it would be safe to go and take a closer look at what was outside her gate.’ Sophie Stephenson

‘She waited in suspense … but no one came.’ Denise Quiboloy

‘Where the wind blows and the snow falls, there's a mountain that is as tall as the clouds.’ Alina Peaty 

‘Eventually Cash thought they threw their phones in the deep and sandy ocean at a deadly beach that no-one could survive’. Tyler Toparis

‘The trees were waving in the wind, then suddenly crack; a tree had fallen!!!’ Charlie Boniface

‘The next morning the doctor came to the school with stained yellow teeth, hands as blue as the ocean and eyes as red as blood.’ Billy Mawdsley

‘The door creaked open like a squealing motor.’ Audrey Maxwell

‘A creepy old and abandoned house was positioned in the middle of nowhere.’ Ty McMahon

‘So, I conducted my plan, and this is where it got me … out of the game.’ Will Curvey

‘Like a statue, my dog froze and stared deeply into the brown snake’s soul.’ Rihanna Butler

‘My body froze, my reflection was staring at me with a creepy glare.’ Lachlan Ashley-Jones

‘The fountain came alive with colours, indigo rising all over, violet spiralling into the air like the sun, she saw beautiful aqua shoot up; as soothing as the sea itself Mirah thought in admiration.’ Isabelle Howard