The Timekeeper’s Secret
Imagination
The Timekeeper’s Secret is a free, NAPLAN-aligned imagination writing resource for Australian primary students. It includes a story starter, complication, tiered vocabulary and scaffolds mapped to the Australian Curriculum (AC9).
Lila had always been fascinated by her grandmother’s old attic. It was filled with strange contraptions, clocks, and mysterious gadgets she couldn’t understand. But on one rainy afternoon, while exploring the forgotten corners of the dusty room, she found something that would change everything. Among the piles of old books and bibs and bobs, she uncovered a glowing device, its clock face flickering in the dim light. As she held it, the gears around her began to spin, and the air felt charged with a strange energy. Her grandmother’s secret, she realised, had something to do with time itself.
The complication
- Lila learns that the device controls time, but it comes with a warning—every time she uses it, something in the world changes in unexpected ways.
- As Lila begins to experiment with the device, she finds that she is no longer in control. The time shifts start happening on their own, taking her to places she’s never been.
- The more Lila tries to undo the changes caused by the device, the more complicated and dangerous the consequences become.
What's in the full resource
- Complications
- Creative Twists
- Vocabulary Support
- Sentence Starters
- Dialogue Prompts
- Writing Challenges
- Sentence Variety
- Writing Checklist
- Reflective Questions
- Collaborative Writing Ideas
- Printable teacher and student PDFs
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