Outstanding Openers Support Card
Encourage your students to experiment with these hooks and watch their writing become more engaging and expressive. Download the Outstanding Openers Support Card today and give your students the support they need to take their writing to the next level!
Transform your students’ writing with the Outstanding Openers Support Card—an essential tool for encouraging varied and engaging sentence structures! This A6-sized, student-friendly support card provides six effective sentence openers to help primary students create more dynamic and captivating writing.
The Outstanding Openers Support Card focuses on six powerful ways to “hook” the reader from the very beginning of a sentence:
- Connectives to link ideas and build cohesion
- Adverbs to describe how actions unfold
- Verbs in the ‘ing’ form add energy and movement
- Nouns and adjectives to create vivid images
- Similes and metaphors to add creativity and depth
- Feelings to express emotions and engage the reader
This easy-to-use reference card is perfect for placing on desks or in writing folders, providing students with quick access to tools that will help them vary their sentence openers and capture their audience’s attention. Ideal for use during independent writing time, group work, or teacher-led activities, it allows students to break free from repetitive sentence structures and start their sentences in exciting new ways.
