Bring your narrative writing lessons to life with this set of three engaging Sentence Starter Posters, designed to help students confidently begin, build, and conclude their stories.

Each poster provides complex sentence examples to scaffold students’ writing through the Orientation, Complication, and Resolution stages of a narrative.

Perfect for Years 3–6, these posters support students in writing more detailed, cohesive, and mature sentences, while reinforcing understanding of narrative structure and sentence complexity.

🌟 What’s Included:

• 3 x A4 Posters:
• 🏰 Orientation (Introduction): Sentence starters to set the scene and introduce characters, settings, and situations.
• ⚡ Complication (Problem): Starters that build suspense, emotion, and action.
• 🌈 Resolution (Ending): Sentence starters to wrap up the story and reflect on character change or outcome.
• 🎨 Beautiful matching pastel design – perfect for classroom display or writing walls
• 💬 Complex sentence examples that model high-quality narrative writing

🧠 Skills Supported:

• Writing structured and cohesive narratives
• Expanding sentence complexity using conjunctions and dependent clauses
• Building vocabulary and descriptive detail
• Developing strong story beginnings, middles, and endings

🇦🇺 Aligned To:

Australian Curriculum v9 – English

• Language: Text Structure and Organisation (AC9E4LA04, AC9E5LA05)
• Literacy: Creating Texts (AC9E4LY06, AC9E5LY07)
• Literature: Engaging with and Creating Literary Texts (AC9E6LE02)

💡 Suggested Use:

• Display on your writing wall or bump-it-up wall
• Use as reference sheets in student writing folders
• Incorporate into narrative writing mini-lessons or sentence expansion activities
• Ideal for differentiation – supports students developing complex sentence skills