Writing Sentence Starters Printable Stems Opinion Information Narrative Charts
$9.91
This sentence starters bundle gives students the language to begin, develop, and conclude their writing across four major genres: opinion, informational, personal narrative, and story narrative. Each set includes anchor charts, reference sheets, and a sorting activity.
Writing is hard to start and harder to finish. These sentence starters give students clear, structured prompts for stating opinions, organizing facts, telling true stories, and building fictional ones, so they can focus on their ideas.
Because every set uses the same format, you can teach one genre at a time and keep the routine the same all year.
What’s Included
- Opinion writing sentence starters for stating opinions, giving reasons, addressing counterarguments, and writing conclusions
- Informational writing sentence starters for introducing topics, organizing facts, explaining cause and effect, comparing and contrasting, and summarizing
- Personal narrative sentence starters for introductions, event descriptions, and reflective conclusions
- Story narrative sentence starters for character-driven openings, action, conflict, and emotional conclusions
- First-person and third-person sentence starters where they apply
- Starters organized by story elements and writing structures
- Anchor chart and journal reference sheets for classroom display or writing folders
- Sorting activities where students categorize sentence starters
Skills Covered
- Writing opinion, informational, and narrative pieces
- Organizing ideas with a beginning, middle, and end
- Using transitions and genre-specific language
- Understanding first-person and third-person point of view
- Categorizing sentence starters by purpose
Ways to Use This Resource
- Display the anchor charts during writing lessons
- Paste the reference sheets into writing journals
- Model starters in mini-lessons
- Use the sorting activities to teach genre structure
- Offer starters as scaffolds for writers who need support
Why Teachers Love It
- Covers four genres in one set
- Consistent format across all sets
- Anchor charts and journal pages serve whole-class and independent use
- Low prep
- Bundle pricing saves compared with buying each set separately
This sentence starters bundle supports writers all year across every genre you teach. Print the sets you need and keep them ready for any writing unit.
16 reviews for Writing Sentence Starters Printable Stems Opinion Information Narrative Charts
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Miss Medinas Firsties –
My students struggled with starting their essays.so these sentence stems were so helpful! It definitely helped improve their writing.
Kelly W. –
These help student who do not have strong conversational skills write strong, complete sentences. This is very beneficial to EL students.
Terri A. –
Thank you for this great resource, it really helped my students in their writing. The sentence starters really helped.
Kara G. –
This was awesome for helping my students with their writing assignments!
Victoria A. –
This was a really helpful resource for not only my SPED kids, but for my kiddos who tend to ignore my anchor charts, haha.