Help children create richer, more engaging character descriptions with these ready-to-use sentence stems and fronted adverbial strips for fiction writing!

These sentence strips encourage pupils to expand their sentences, vary their openings and develop deeper characterisation in a simple, structured way.

The sentence strips include a range of powerful openers such as:

“Even though…”
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“Full of…”
“O�ڳٱ��…�ĝ
“Wherever she went…”
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“W���ٳ�…�ĝ
“B�𳦲��ܲ���…�ĝ

Perfect for helping children describe personality, appearance, emotions and behaviour while improving sentence fluency and vocabulary choices. The prompts are ideal for scaffolding reluctant writers whilst also stretching more confident pupils.

Easy to print, cut and display, these sentence strips make a fantastic classroom resource for encouraging ambitious writing and helping children build confidence with varied sentence starters.