Scaffolds and Writing Prompts

Scaffolds are meant to provide structure to a notebook entry and allow students to insert their observations or thinking. As the year progresses, the scaffolds change to allow for more student independence.

The pages below are sets of sentence starters to provide beginning points for notebook entries. They are designed to be glued or taped to the inside back cover of the notebook so they can be folded out and viewed as the student writes in the notebook:

Sentence prompts exposed - ready for writing...

As student reading and writing progresses, more advanced Sentence Prompts may be glued on top of existing ones:

Here are the documents to download and print: