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Holiday Sentence Starters

In English Language Arts and Reading ... Text Types and Purpose

$1.99 or Free on Plus | 10 pages (PDF)|Grades: 2 - 5

30 sentence starter cards to use as a holiday-themed writing activity.

Use these holiday sentence starter cards in your writing center to encourage your students to write a holiday narrative. These also work great as a fast finisher activity in the weeks leading up to Christmas.

You may also like to use these writing sheets:

Common Core

Common Core Curriculum alignment

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.2.3
Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.
In Grade 2 English Language Arts Standards Writing Text Types and Purposes
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.3
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
In Grade 3 English Language Arts Standards Writing Text Types and Purposes
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.3.A
Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.
In Grade 3 English Language Arts Standards Writing Text Types and Purposes CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.3
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.3
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
In Grade 4 English Language Arts Standards Writing Text Types and Purposes
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.3.A
Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.
In Grade 4 English Language Arts Standards Writing Text Types and Purposes CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.3
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.3
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
In Grade 5 English Language Arts Standards Writing Text Types and Purposes
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.3.A
Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.
In Grade 5 English Language Arts Standards Writing Text Types and Purposes CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.3

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