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SECTION 5: STRUCTURE

Instructions1. Teacher reads out the bingo number and the openings extract twice. 2. Teacher jots down the bingo number on the bingo caller card.3. Pupils look for an appropriate description of that type of opening on their

bingo cards. If it is on their card, they write the number of the extract in the appropriate square.

4. Repeat until a pupil has completed a full line.

The purpose of the activity is to:a) Explore openingsb) Encourage thinking about the impact of different openingsc)Encourage pupils to think from different perspectivesd) Develop talking and listening skillsIn using this activity, the learning happens through the discussion. There are a number of ways you could structure the talk to ensure that all pupils take part and that they are all able to develop their understanding of story openings.

Whole Class DiscussionOnce the game is over, discuss the answers of the pupil who had the full line with the whole class. Some of the openings provided will fit into more than one category, so if the pupils’ responses are not the same as the suggested idea in the teachers’ notes, they may still be valid. The questions below may be helpful in ensuring higher order thinking.

Paired/Small Group WorkYou could allocate one opening each to small groups and have them respond to the questions below, and report back to another group/whole class.

Individual WorkYou could allocate a different opening to each pupil. Give time for them to study their opening, identify its advantages/disadvantages, including the target age/gender/genre. When pupils have considered their opening, they then travel around the room, reading their opening to a partner, discussing it and ticking it off on their own bingo card. This is a version of ‘Each One, Teach One’ (Active Learning and Teaching Strategies booklet).You could limit the number of different opening types you work with at any time, to make the task more manageable and the learning more targeted.

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Questions that may be useful for this activity: Which opening type is it? How do you know? Did anybody have a different opening type for that one? How does that opening impact on the reader? What type of book do you think it might be from? How do you think the book might end? Who might read this book?

Other ways of using these openings:Ranking activitiesFor example, you could print out and laminate a set for pupils to use for ranking activities, e.g. rank the openings from the most appealing to the least appealing. Share with a partner and discuss. Challenge them to come up with a joint ranking. With any ranking activity, the rank order they settle on is often less important than the process of the discussion that led to the agreed order.

Genre gameYou could play a genre game, where pupils have genres printed and laminated. You call out an opening and the pupils 'vote' for the genre they think the novel it belongs to is most likely to be. Again, the discussion around the clues they are using to reach the decision makes them more aware of the written text as a construct, and helps them to focus on the decisions that other writers make. This will then have an impact on their own decision-making as writers.

“Copy the great writers until you can write no other way”Remind the pupils that the point of looking at these openings is so that they will copy them and use similar openings in their own work.Why not give them some of the openings, and allow them to copy the sentence structures used in some of the examples, but changing the details?

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Openings descriptionsThese story openings descriptions are listed in the prepared bingo cards: Once upon a time… Raises questions in the reader’s mind Immediate insight into character Humour (making the reader laugh) Universal statement (thought-provoking generalisation) Mid-action opening Presents an unusual situation (Surprises the reader) Retrospective view of the action (narrative voice is looking back over the

action of the plot with hindsight) Creates an atmosphere (for the story) Detailed description of one item Directly addresses the reader Literary or cultural allusion Biographical opening (introduction of the character) Interesting dialogue Shocking statement Understatement

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Story Openings ExtractsNo Extract Novel and Writer1 September, Tuesday: First of all, let me get something

straight: this is a JOURNAL, not a diary. I know what it says on the cover, but when Mom went out to buy this thing I SPECIFICALLY told her to get one that didn’t say “diary” on it.

Diary of a Wimpy KidJeff Kinney

2 Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have a million pounds? Or a billion? How about a trillion? Or even a gazillion? Meet Joe Spud.

Billionaire BoyDavid Walliams

3 Ho Chi Minh City in the summer. Sweltering by anyone’s standards. Needless to say, Artemis Fowl would not be willing to put up with such discomfort if something extremely important had not been at stake. Important to the plan.

Artemis FowlEoin Colfer

4 ‘I don’t care if your friend Darren has a python, a cockatoo and a marmoset monkey,’ said mum, ‘the answer’s still no.’

Jake’s MagicAlan Durant

5 It should be made clear from the start that Blart never wanted to be a hero. He had not been brought up on tales of bravery and courage in the face of overwhelming odds; he had been brought up on a pig farm. He had not read the myths and legends of the dim distant past where noble men and women gloriously chanced all for others; he had read his grandfather’s books which were mainly about diseases that pigs got. He had not learnt to ride a horse or to sword fight or to risk his life for the honour of a beautiful woman. He had learnt that if you want to catch a pig you sneak up on it from behind and take it by surprise.

Blart: The Boy Who Didn’t Want to Save the World Dominic Barker

6 ‘Honestly, Mrs Hadley,’ said Meggie McGregor, wiping her eyes. ‘That sense of humour of yours will be the death of me yet!’Jasmine Hadley allowed herself a rare giggle. ‘The things I tell you, Meggie. It’s lucky we’re such good friends!’Meggie’s smile wavered only slightly. She looked out across the vast lawn at Callum and Sephy. Her son and her employer’s daughter. They were good friends playing together. Real good friends. No barriers. No boundaries. Not yet anyway. It was a typical summer’s day, light and bright and, in the Hadley household anyway, not a cloud in their sky.

Noughts & CrossesMalorie Blackman

7 The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

MurphySamuel Beckett

8 Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy name baby tuckoo.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManJames Joyce

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9 The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods.

BabbittSinclair Lewis

10 I am afraid. Someone is coming. That is, I think someone is coming, though I am not sure, and I pray that I am wrong.

Z for ZachariahRobert C O’Brien

11 A story has no beginning or end; arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

The End of the AffairGraham Greene

12 Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Anna KareninaLeo Tolstoy

13 It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

1984George Orwell

14 In my younger and more vulnerable years, my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. Whenever you feel like criticising anyone, he told me, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.

The Great GatsbyF Scott Fitzgerald

15 In the dark pit that had been my prison for almost three hundred and fifty years, Steadman’s latest victim was regaining consciousness.

CrawlersSam Enthoven

16 In her nightmares, Alice looked into the magic mirror and watched the steamship burn all over again.

The Palace of GlassDjango Wexler

17 When you wish that a Saturday was actually a Monday, you know there is something seriously wrong.

Boy in the Tower Polly Ho-Yen

18 Laura's baby brother George was four weeks old when it happened.

George SpeaksDick King-Smith

19 Our last moments of freedom,' Lloyd said darkly. He glowered round the battered walls of the playroom, at the motorbike posters peeling off the wallpaper and Harvey's model aeroplanes neatly ranged on top of the bookcase. 'She'll be sticking up pictures of flowers and ballet dancers when she comes I bet.'

The Demon HeadmasterGillian Cross

20 It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.

MatildaRoald Dahl

21 Oh, Lizzie, do you believe how absolutely horrendous I look today!

Sweet Valley High: Double Love Francine Pascal

22 I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. I Capture the CastleDodie Smith

23 In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines Madeline

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lived twelve little girls in two straight lines. Ludwig Bemelmans24 If, standing alone on the back doorstep, Tom allowed

himself to weep tears, they were tears of anger. Tom's Midnight GardenPhilippa Pearce

25 You don't know about me without you have read a book called 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that ain't no matter.

The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain

26 July had been blown out like a candle by a biting wind that ushered in a leaden August sky.

My Family and Other Animals Gerald Durrell

27 If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.

The Catcher in the RyeJ.D. Salinger

28 When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen.

The Secret GardenFrances Hodgson Burnett

29 When Mr Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton.

The Fellowship of the RingJ.R.R. Tolkien

30 There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.

The Voyage of the Dawn TreaderC.S.Lewis

31 My name is Tracy Beaker. I am 10 years 2 months old. My birthday is on May 8. It's not fair, because that dopey Peter Ingham has his birthday then too, so we just got the one cake between us. And we had to hold the knife to cut the cake together. Which meant we only had half a wish each. Wishing is for babies anyway. Wishes don't come true.

The Story of Tracy BeakerJacqueline Wilson

32 Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen.

The Golden CompassPhilip Pullman

33 It was Mrs. May who first told me about them. The BorrowersMary Norton

34 Johnny never knew for certain why he started seeing the dead.

Johnny and the DeadTerry Pratchett

35 It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips.

The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling

36 It was seven minutes after midnight. The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs Shears' house. Its eyes were closed.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

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Mark Haddon37 Everybody knows the story of the Three Little Pigs. Or at

least they think they do. But I'll let you in on a little secret. Nobody knows the real story, because nobody has ever heard my side of the story. I'm the Wolf.

The true Story of the 3 Little Pigs (by A. Wolf)As told to Jon Scieszka

38 Marley was dead, to begin with. A Christmas CarolCharles Dickens

39 Kidnapping children is never a good idea; all the same, sometimes it has to be done.

Island of the AuntsEva Ibbotson

40 Down in the valley there were three farms. The owners of these farms had done well. They were rich men. They were also nasty men. All three of them were about as nasty and mean as any men you could meet. Their names were Farmer Boggis, Farmer Bunce and Farmer Bean.

Fantastic Mr FoxRoald Dahl

41 It was so glorious out in the country; it was summer; the cornfields were yellow, the oats were green, the hay had been put up in stacks in the green meadows, and the stork went about on his long red legs, and chattered Egyptian, for this was the language he had learned from his good mother.

The Ugly DucklingHans Christian Anderson

42 Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were - Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and Peter.

The Tale of Peter RabbitBeatrix Potter

43 "Where's Papa going with that axe?" said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast.

Charlotte's WebE.B. White

44 Once on a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted and the shop windows blazed with gas as they do at night, an odd-looking little girl sat in a cab with her father and was driven rather slowly through the big thoroughfares.

A little PrincessFrances Hodgson Burnett

45 The Iron Man came to the top of the cliff. How far had he walked? Nobody knows. Where had he come from? Nobody knows. Taller than a house, the Iron Man stood at the top of the cliff, on the very brink, in the darkness.

The Iron ManTed Hughes

46 The first place that I can remember well was a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it.

Black Beauty Anna Sewell

47 Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's StoneJ.K. Rowling

48 Most motorcars are conglomerations (this is a long word for bundles) of steel and wire and rubber and plastic, and electricity and oil and gasoline and water, and the toffee papers you pushed down the crack in the back seat last Sunday.

Chitty Chitty Bang BangIan Fleming

49 All children, except one, grow up. Peter Pan

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J.M. Barrie50 Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood. Percy Jackson and

the Lightning ThiefRick Riordan

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Story openings bingo

Once upon a time… Immediate insight into character

Retrospective view of the action

Universal statement Interesting dialogue Shocking statement

Creates an atmosphere Humour Literary or cultural

allusion


Detailed description of one item

Immediate insight into character


Universal statement Presents an unusual situation Understatement

Humour Creates an atmosphere Interesting dialogue

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Shocking statement Mid-action opening Presents an unusual situation

Interesting dialogue Immediate insight into character

Directly addresses the reader

Once upon a time… Creates an atmosphere



Understatement Once upon a time… Raises questions in the reader’s mind


Detailed description of one item Interesting dialogue

Shocking statement Creates an atmosphere

Literary or cultural allusion

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Retrospective view of the action Humour Shocking statement

Creates an atmosphere Understatement Universal statement

Interesting dialogue Directly addresses the reader



Retrospective view of the action Humour Biographical

opening

Interesting dialogue Mid-action opening Creates an atmosphere

Detailed description of one item Understatement Raises questions in

the reader’s mind

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Immediate insight into character Interesting dialogue Shocking statement

Understatement Biographical opening

Raises questions in the reader’s mind


Directly addresses the reader Universal statement Literary or cultural

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Creates an atmosphere

Interesting dialogue Presents an unusual situation Understatement

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Presents an unusual situation Mid-action opening Biographical

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Humour Understatement Detailed description of one item


Mid-action opening Once upon a time… Shocking statement

Creates an atmosphere Humour Immediate insight

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Retrospective view of the action Understatement

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Universal statement Detailed description of one item


Literary or cultural allusion Interesting dialogue Creates an

atmosphere

Biographical opening Shocking statement Once upon a time…





Understatement Mid-action opening Literary or cultural allusion

Retrospective view of the action Shocking statement Raises questions in

the reader’s mind

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Understatement Literary or cultural allusion Interesting dialogue

Detailed description of one item Once upon a time… Shocking statement

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Mid-action opening Humour Once upon a time…

Shocking statement Directly addresses the reader


Understatement Interesting dialogue Literary or cultural allusion

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Once upon a time… Humour Raises questions in

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Directly addresses the reader Shocking statement Presents an unusual

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Understatement Interesting dialogue Biographical opening


Literary or cultural allusion Mid-action opening Retrospective view of

the action

Detailed description of one item Shocking statement Creates an

atmosphere

Immediate insight into character Understatement Humour

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Raises questions in the reader’s mind Understatement

Interesting dialogue Shocking statement Biographical opening

Universal statement Retrospective view of the action Once upon a time…


Understatement Retrospective view of the action Humour



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Mid-action opening Once upon a time…

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Humour Shocking statement Understatement

Universal statement Retrospective view of the action Mid-action opening


Presents an unusual situation Interesting dialogue Directly addresses

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Raises questions in the reader’s mind Mid-action opening

Humour Shocking statement Universal statement


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Interesting dialogue Shocking statement Understatement


Literary or cultural allusion Universal statement


Retrospective view of the action Mid-action opening


Universal statement Understatement Literary or cultural allusion


Creates an atmosphere Humour


Immediate insight into character Once upon a time…

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Biographical opening Humour

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Retrospective view of the action Universal statement


Creates an atmosphere Mid-action opening



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Directly addresses the reader Mid-action opening Raises questions in

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Interesting dialogue Literary or cultural allusion Shocking statement

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Interesting dialogue Detailed description of one item


Understatement Universal statement Retrospective view of the action

Humour Literary or cultural allusion Shocking statement


Shocking statement Humour Directly addresses the reader

Mid-action opening Raises questions in the reader’s mind


Once upon a time… Presents an unusual situation Understatement


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Literary or cultural allusion Once upon a time…

Interesting dialogue Creates an atmosphere


Presents an unusual situation Humour Directly addresses

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Presents an unusual situation Interesting dialogue Biographical

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