Eight short story starters to develop prediction and story telling skills

Eight story ideas, all set in the nineteenth century but could easily be converted, and a note explaining how you could use them lesson to develop the children's prediction and story telling skills. They were written as part of the Year 4 'Stories with historical settings' unit, linked with local history learning. The immediate outcome is paired or group talk and then presentation, but then you can refer back to the ideas in writing lessons.