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Topic Sentence Starter Cards
PDF | 13 pages|Grades: 3 - 7A pack of 32 narrative, persuasive and report writing sentence starter cards.
Use this pack of sentence starters to encourage your students to identify and write in a narrative, persuasive or report writing style. Choose a topic sentence starter from the pack and have your students continue writing a paragraph.
This pack also includes a title page for you to stick on the front of a plastic sleeve or A4 envelope.
You may also like our Random Sentence Starter Generator.
NSW Curriculum alignment
- EN2-2A
Plans, composes and reviews a range of texts that are more demanding in terms of topic, audience and language
- EN2-9B
Uses effective and accurate sentence structure, grammatical features, punctuation conventions and vocabulary relevant to the type of text when responding to and composing texts
- EN3-2A
Composes, edits and presents well-structured and coherent texts
Victorian Curriculum alignment
- VCELA259
Understand that paragraphs are a key organisational feature of written texts
- VCELY266
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features and selecting print and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose
- VCELY299
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts containing key information and supporting details for a widening range of audiences, demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features
- VCELY329
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive print and multimodal texts, choosing text structures, language features, images and sound appropriate to purpose and audience
- VCELY358
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, choosing and experimenting with text structures, language features, images and digital resources appropriate to purpose and audience
Australian Curriculum alignment
- ACELY1682
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features and selecting print,and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purposeElaborationsusing pri...
- ACELY1694
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts containing key information and supporting details for a widening range of audiences, demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language featuresElaborationsusing re...
- ACELY1704
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive print and multimodal texts, choosing text structures, language features, images and sound appropriate to purpose and audienceElaborationsusing research from print and digital resources t...
- ACELY1714
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, choosing and experimenting with text structures, language features, images and digital resources appropriate to purpose and audienceElaborationscreating informative texts for two ...
- ACELA1479
Understand that paragraphs are a key organisational feature of written textsElaborationsnoticing how longer texts are organised into paragraphs, each beginning with a topic sentence/paragraph opener which predicts how the paragraph will develop and i...
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Danielle Jean Potts · Dec 10th, 2014