diff --git a/scrapy/templates/project/module/items.py.tmpl b/scrapy/templates/project/module/items.py.tmpl
index aab8ca9b3..826c385e8 100644
--- a/scrapy/templates/project/module/items.py.tmpl
+++ b/scrapy/templates/project/module/items.py.tmpl
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@
 # See documentation in:
 # http://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/items.html
 
-from scrapy.item import Item, Field
+import scrapy
 
-class ${ProjectName}Item(Item):
+class ${ProjectName}Item(scrapy.Item):
     # define the fields for your item here like:
-    # name = Field()
+    # name = scrapy.Field()
     pass
diff --git a/scrapy/templates/spiders/basic.tmpl b/scrapy/templates/spiders/basic.tmpl
index 0a1fbd7fd..da5c57a39 100644
--- a/scrapy/templates/spiders/basic.tmpl
+++ b/scrapy/templates/spiders/basic.tmpl
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-from scrapy.spider import Spider
+import scrapy
 
-class $classname(Spider):
+class $classname(scrapy.Spider):
     name = "$name"
     allowed_domains = ["$domain"]
     start_urls = (
@@ -8,4 +8,4 @@ class $classname(Spider):
         )
 
     def parse(self, response):
-        pass 
+        pass
diff --git a/scrapy/templates/spiders/crawl.tmpl b/scrapy/templates/spiders/crawl.tmpl
index 82c27d7f4..25e84f940 100644
--- a/scrapy/templates/spiders/crawl.tmpl
+++ b/scrapy/templates/spiders/crawl.tmpl
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-from scrapy.selector import Selector
+import scrapy
 from scrapy.contrib.linkextractors.sgml import SgmlLinkExtractor
 from scrapy.contrib.spiders import CrawlSpider, Rule
 from $project_name.items import ${ProjectName}Item
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ class $classname(CrawlSpider):
     )
 
     def parse_item(self, response):
-        sel = Selector(response)
+        sel = scrapy.Selector(response)
         i = ${ProjectName}Item()
         #i['domain_id'] = sel.xpath('//input[@id="sid"]/@value').extract()
         #i['name'] = sel.xpath('//div[@id="name"]').extract()