Text Structure Sentence Stem Cards

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Text Structure Sentence Stem Cards: One A4 page laid out as 12 colour-coded rectangular cards in a 3x4 grid with dashed cut lines; each card has a bold title (e.g. DESCRIPTION, SEQUENCE, COMPARE & CONTRAST, CAUSE & EFFECT, PROBLEM & SOLUTION, CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER, EXAMPLE, LIST / BULLET, DEFINE / EXPLAIN, CONDITION, PERSUADE / ARGUE, SUMMARY), a simple icon (magnifying glass, numbered steps, Venn, question->exclamation, lightbulb, clock, star, bullet list, book, signpost, megaphone, clipboard),...

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This A4 printable presents 12 cut-apart cards, each labelled with a text-structure name, matching icon and 2–4 simple sentence stems with blanks (e.g. 'First, ___', 'Because ___, ___'). Use them as scaffolds for planning, modelling transitions and building paragraph structure during writing lessons. They are designed to make connective language explicit and to support students who need sentence starters or structure prompts.

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