Story Writing Topics for Class 6, 7 and 8: Simple Topics That Still Have a Plot
Quick answer: Story writing topics for Class 6, 7 and 8 sorted by class: animals and school for Class 6, choices and small mysteries for Class 7, opening lines and morals for Class 8.
For Classes 6 to 8 the story question is usually 80 to 150 words, set from a title, a picture or a few points, and marked on whether the story has a beginning, a middle and an end, whether it makes sense, and whether the English is correct. The topics below are sorted by class so the difficulty rises gently: animals and school for Class 6, small choices and small mysteries for Class 7, opening lines and morals for Class 8.
The one rule that holds at every level is that something must happen. A description of a picnic is not a story. A picnic where the food is eaten by monkeys and the children have to solve it is.
Class 6 topics
Keep to one character, one place and one problem. Animals and school settings work because the student already knows them.
Class 7 topics
Add a choice. The character should have to decide something, and the story should show what the decision costs.
Class 8 topics
Class 8 papers begin to use opening lines and to ask for a moral. Copy a given line exactly, and keep the moral to one sentence.
What changes between Class 6 and Class 8
In Class 6 the story needs only a sequence: this happened, then this, then it ended. In Class 7 the examiner starts to look for a turning point, a moment where the character decides. By Class 8 the story should have a shape that would survive in a Class 9 paper: a title, four paragraphs, a problem, a decision and an ending that shows the result. The word limit grows from about 80 to about 150, and the marking begins to separate content from expression.
Teachers can use the same topic across all three classes and simply ask more of it. 'A visit to the village fair' is a sequence in Class 6, a lost-and-found in Class 7, and a story about a promise to a younger sibling in Class 8.
What writers can take from this
- Something must happen; description alone is not a story.
- One character, one place, one problem at every level.
- Class 7 onward: give the character a choice.
- Class 8: copy opening lines exactly and keep morals to one line.
- Use the simple past and check it at the end.
- Give the story a title even if the question forgets to ask.
Try it yourself
Write 'The kite that flew away' three times: as a Class 6 sequence in 80 words, as a Class 7 story with a choice in 120 words, and as a Class 8 story with a title and a one-line moral in 150 words.
Questions
How many words should a Class 6 story be?
Most school papers set 80 to 100 words for Class 6, rising to about 120 in Class 7 and 150 in Class 8. Follow whatever the question states and aim for four short paragraphs.
Can middle school students write stories in the first person?
Yes, and it often helps, because 'I' stories come with feelings built in. Keep the tense in the past and avoid the ending where the narrator wakes up from a dream.
Should a Class 8 story have a moral?
Only if the question asks. When it does, one short sentence at the end in the present tense is enough, and it must match what happened in the story.
By the Writory editorial team, reviewed by working writers. Updated September 2026.
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