Great Beginnings

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Great Beginnings
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Dialogue

• You can begin your personal narrative with one
  character speaking, or dialogue.
• Wheres Papa going with that ax? said Fern to
  her mother as they were setting the table for
  breakfast.
• Out to the hoghouse, replied Mrs. Arable.
  Some pigs were born last night.
• I dont see why he needs an ax, continued
  Fern, who was only eight.

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Action

• An exciting way to begin your personal narrative
  is with action. Get your readers on the edge of
  their seats from the beginning.
• Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now,
  bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind
  Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the
  only was of coming downstairs, but sometimes he
  feels that there really is another way, if only
  he could stop bumping for a moment and think of
  it.

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Description

• One option is to begin your personal narrative
  with a vivid description that creates an image in
  the readers mind.
• Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many
  ways. For one thing, he hated the summer holidays
  more than any other time of year. For another, he
  really wanted to do his homework, but was forced
  to do it in secret, in the dead of night. And he
  also happened to be a wizard.