We have been looking at using different openers to improve our writing and found we could begin a sentence with an adverb (slowly, quickly, angrily).  We discussed how adverbs were words that described a verb (barking ferociously).  We then followed a template of openers to write a five sentence story...

Once upon a time... who...

One day...

Unfortunately...

Luckily...

Finally...

We wrote some five sentence stories based on fairy tales we knew and performed them for the class...