Paragraph Planning Sentence Stem Cards

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Paragraph Planning Sentence Stem Cards: A single A4 portrait page with a large title 'PARAGRAPH PLANNING SENTENCE STEM CARDS' and dashed cut lines forming 12 rectangular cards in a 3 x 4 grid. Each card has a coloured icon and heading (e.g. TOPIC SENTENCE, MAIN IDEA, EXPLAIN, EVIDENCE (DATA), FOR EXAMPLE, ACCORDING TO THE TABLE, ACCORDING TO THE GRAPH, COMPARE, CALCULATION, CONCLUSION, LIMITATION, NEXT STEP) with a one-line or two-line sentence stem containing a blank (underscore) for students...

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This resource is a set of sentence-stem cards labelled with paragraph roles (e.g. Topic Sentence, Main Idea, Explain, Evidence (Data), According to the Graph/Table, Calculation, Conclusion, Limitation, Next Step) with a short fill-in-the-blank prompt on each card. It is designed to scaffold students when writing paragraphs that refer to data or when structuring explanatory responses in maths or cross-curricular tasks. Icons and colour-coding help students quickly identify the purpose of each card.

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