The sentence starter is an effective writing strategy. Sentence starters help your child focus, organize their thoughts, and be more creative. Use this strategy to help develop that creative genius you know your child possesses!

Sentence starters also help students describe facts, make predictions, compare and contrast, state an opinion, and clarify or paraphrase information. Instruct your child to finish the sentence below.

       If I could live in any house, I would live…

Homeschoolers/Educators/Parents: Sketch/color an illustration. Theme: house. Read the story called Goldilocks & the Three Bears in Learning to Read: Favorite Fairy Tales (Audiobook/Kindle/paperback). Put these words in alphabetical order and use in a sentence: house, lady, candy, knock, bear, table, upstairs. Describe what the Three Bears saw in the house when they returned to it. Share what you like best in a house. Pretend you are one of the three bears. Safely say and do what they did. (Skillset: identify, comprehend, apply, creativity, verbal).