Sentence Stems Writing Support

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🎯 WALT: Use sentence stems to improve our writing

Success Criteria: I can choose appropriate sentence stems for different writing purposes and complete them with my own ideas.

📝 Part 1: Explaining Ideas

Choose 3 sentence stems and complete them to explain something you know well:

1. The reason why _________________________ is because _________________________.

2. First, _________________________. Next, _________________________. Finally, _________________________.

3. This happens when _________________________.

4. For example, _________________________.

💪 Part 2: Persuading Others

Complete these stems to persuade someone about something you believe in:

5. I strongly believe that _________________________ because _________________________.

6. Everyone should _________________________ because it will _________________________.

7. The most important reason is _________________________.

🎨 Part 3: Describing and Comparing

8. _________________________ looks like _________________________ and feels like _________________________.

9. While _________________________ is _________________________, _________________________ is _________________________.

10. Both _________________________ and _________________________ are similar because _________________________.

🌟 Extension Activity

11. Challenge: Create your own sentence stem that could help other students with their writing. Write it below and then complete it with an example:

Dyslexia-Friendly Tip: Choose the sentence stems that feel most comfortable to you. You can use bullet points or draw pictures to plan your ideas first!

Support Option: Work with a partner to discuss your ideas before writing, or ask for help reading any sentence stems aloud.