Sentence Starters Mini-Session

(Teacher Key)
Use a variety of transitional words, phrases, and clauses
to manage the sequence of events. (W 5.3c)

Transition Word Review

Fictional Writing Transition Words Non-Fiction Writing Transition Words

*In the beginning of the story, *The first detail the text talked about was,
*The middle of the story began, *The first idea it discussed was,
*The final event, *To begin with, the article discusses…
*The first thing that happened was, *To add to the argument,
*Another essential event, *The first reason is,
*It all began, *In my opinion,
*After that, *Another essential point,
*On the other hand,
*Another reason,

Transition Words Used in Both

*In addition,
*Furthermore,
*Last but not least,
*The first thing I learned was, (change the word LEARN to: read, analyzed, observed, ect.)
*As well as,
*Another detail in the _______ was
*The last (fact / event) was
*In conclusion
*To summarize,
*As shown above,
*A final thought is
*As you can see,
*To elaborate,
*Equally important,
*To begin with,
*To start,
*In the first place,

Sentence Starters Mini-Lesson

Fictional Writing Sentence Starters Non-Fiction Writing Sentence Starters

*I know this because in the book it says… *The evidence suggests/shows…
*The author wrote *I know this because in the text it says…
*From reading, I know that….
*An example for the story is…
*According to the story,
*It is evident from the story that….
Sentence Start for Main Idea
In the (book/story/passage/article) (title it
mostly talks about...
Sentence Starters for Opinion Essay
Start with a hook
-Ask a question
-Make a bold statement
-Interest your readers with a fact
Sentence Starter
*In my opinion, _____________
should/should not be ____________
because of three reasons. These reasons ____________. The three things I will be
are _______, ________, and _______.
*Examples would include,
*In passage one the author says,
*In the text it talks about
*The author wrote
*From reading, I know that….
*According to the text,
Sentence Starter for Summary
Start with a hook
*Examples:
-Have you ever heard of…
-Think of a time when…
-Ask another question about the topic to
get your readers engaged
Then state the main idea
Sentence Starters for Informational
Essay
Start with a hook
-Ask a question
-Make a bold statement
-Interest your readers with a fact
Sentence Starter
*Today I will be discussing how
explaining/discussing are ______,
________, and __________.
 Sentence Starters Mini-Session
(Teacher Key)
Use a variety of transitional words, phrases, and clauses
to manage the sequence of events. (W 5.3c)

Transition Word Review

Fictional Writing Transition Words Non-Fiction Writing Transition Words

Transition Words Used in Both

 Sentence Starters Mini-Lesson

Fictional Writing Sentence Starters Non-Fiction Writing Sentence Starters

Sentence Start for Main Idea Sentence Starter for Summary

Start with a hook

Then state the main idea

Sentence Starters for Opinion Essay Sentence Starters for Informational
Essay
Start with a hook
Start with a hook

Sentence Starter Sentence Starter