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Sentence Starters

This document provides sentence starters to help readers respond to texts in various ways: tapping prior knowledge, forming interpretations, asking questions, monitoring comprehension, predicting, revising understanding, visualizing, analyzing author's craft, making connections, reflecting and relating, adopting a perspective, and evaluating. The sentence starters are grouped into these categories to guide reader response and analysis.

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Sentence Starters

This document provides sentence starters to help readers respond to texts in various ways: tapping prior knowledge, forming interpretations, asking questions, monitoring comprehension, predicting, revising understanding, visualizing, analyzing author's craft, making connections, reflecting and relating, adopting a perspective, and evaluating. The sentence starters are grouped into these categories to guide reader response and analysis.

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Sentence Starters for Reader Response

Tapping Prior Knowledge:


I already know that
This reminds me of
This relates to

Forming Interpretations:
What this means to me is
I think this represents
The idea Im getting is
One question that this text answers is
One question that this text addresses is

Asking Questions:
I wonder why
What if
How come
How is it possible that

Monitoring:
I lost track of everything except
I need to reread the part where
I know Im on the right track because
A term or idea that was unclear to me was

Predicting:
Ill bet that
I think
If ____, then

Revising Meaning:
At first I thought _____, but now I
My latest thought about this is
Im getting a different picture here because

Visualizing:
I can picture
In my mind I see
If this were a movie

Analyzing the Authors Craft:


A golden line for me is
This word/phrase stands out for me because
I like how the author uses ____ to show

Making Connections:
This reminds me of
I experienced this once when
I can relate to this to other readings because
The argument here is similar to ___ because
Another example of ___ is

Reflecting and Relating:


So, the big idea is
A conclusion that Im drawing is
This is relevant to my life because
This author is trying to make me (see, feel, know,
do)
It makes a difference that this text was written
because

Adopting an Alignment:
The character I most identify with is
The idea I find most provocative is
I reject this authors view because

Evaluating:
I like/dont like ____ because
This could be more effective if
The most important message here is
One big difference between this and ___ is

Developed by Marcie Wolfe at the Institute for Literacy Studies with input from WAC faculty.
Sources:
New York City Writing Project, Monitoring Our Reading. NY: Lehman College, 2000.
C.B. Olson, The Reading/Writing Connection. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Allyn & Bacon, 2002.
WAC Faculty, Lehman College, Bronx, NY, 2005.

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