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Free Download: Narrative Sentence Starter Cards
Thirty sentence starter cards for narratives.
Use the Narrative Sentence Starter Cards to encourage your students to write something imaginative and interesting.
These cards can be used in a variety of ways. A few ideas are:
- Project one of the writing stimulus on your interactive whiteboard and set the timer. Have your students brainstorm ideas for a narrative text.
- Give each student a different writing stimulus. Have them write a narrative text for their sentence starter.
- Place these cards in a writing center for students to use when they can’t think of anything to write about.
Sentence starters include:
- I found a strange package by the door…
- Brrrringggg! I answered the phone and…
- There was an octopus in my pool…
- The rhino was following me to the…
- He had been squished flatter than a pancake…
- I heard an explosion in the science lab…
- The rain was pouring down…
- At the Dinosaur Park, I rode a…
- The space invaders jumped off the screen…
- I was looking out the porthole…
- A bat flew in my window and told me…
- I was on safari and a giant tiger…
- I stepped outside and a monkey…
- I was hiding in my tree house…
- My new friend is a robot and…
- I fell over a mysterious object…
- I was saved from the quicksand by…
- I set the Guinness World Record for…
- Yesterday, I discovered my superpower was…
- I picked up the moon rock and…
- We had a full tank of fuel and…
- I was riding my whale to…
- “They call me Dr. Snail and…”
- I went to the masquerade ball as a…
- “Wake up!” the dragon shouted to…
- I met a scatter-brained lizard in the desert…
- When I was a tightrope walker…
- There was money everywhere and…
- The box of treasure was…
- The pirate was coming…
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Common Core Curriculum alignment
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.1.3
Write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide some sense of closure.
- 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.
- 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.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.3.A
Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.3.B
Use dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events or show the response of characters to situations.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.3.C
Use temporal words and phrases to signal event order.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.3.D
Provide a sense of closure.
- 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.
- 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.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.3.B
Use dialogue and description to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.3.C
Use a variety of transitional words and phrases to manage the sequence of events.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.3.D
Use concrete words and phrases and sensory details to convey experiences and events precisely.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.3.E
Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events.
- 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.
- 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.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.3.B
Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, description, and pacing, to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.3.C
Use a variety of transitional words, phrases, and clauses to manage the sequence of events.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.3.D
Use concrete words and phrases and sensory details to convey experiences and events precisely.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.3.E
Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.3
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.3.A
Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.3.B
Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, and description, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.3.C
Use a variety of transition words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence and signal shifts from one time frame or setting to another.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.3.D
Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to convey experiences and events.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.3.E
Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events.
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Hello,
When I tried to print these prompts off, the writing is all blurred and black. Is there a problem with this download? I tried several times.
This would be terrific for my classes!
Kind Regards,
Jayne
Jayne McDougall · Jan 11th, 2020
Thank you for bringing this to our attention Jayne! The problem has been resolved and you should now be able to print with no issues. We hope you and your students enjoy using this resource!
Natalie · Jan 11th, 2020