Comic Strip Sentence Starters
Sometimes we need help starting or forming our thoughts in written sentences. You can use the sentence
starters below to help you start writing your ideas and thoughts for the comic strip assessment.
Sentence Starters for the past and present:
Continental Drift:
- In the past, the continents…
- The continents today are…
Plate Tectonics/Convection
- What is moving the continents is…
- I know this because…
- The theory of Plate Tectonics says…
- Today, the plates are…
Plate Boundaries
- The three types of boundaries are…and they cause…
- These boundaries shape the Earth by…
- In the past, the boundaries…
Weathering/Erosion and Deposition
- Today, what happens with erosion and deposition is…
- In the past, erosion and deposition was…
- Some landforms in the past were…
Sentence Starters for the future prediction:
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For the future, a prediction about the continents is that…
In the future, the plates/or convection might…
Plate boundaries in the future could…
Some landforms in the future might…
I predict in the future that…
Evidence 1
(Facts/data from the lab or
reading. Simple
sentences, no explaining)
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From the reading, evidence to support my claim is…
One piece of evidence to support my claim is....
We learned in class that…
During a lab, I observed…
Evidence 2,3,etc…
(Facts/data from the lab
or reading. Simple
sentences, no explaining)
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Secondly,...
Another piece of evidence is...
Additionally,…
Reasoning
(How does your evidence
support your claim?
Explain your evidence.)
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This is important because…
The data shows that…
This evidence suggests that…
How the evidence supports my claim is that…
Claim
(Make 1 claim about the
future of the Earth’s
surface, in a complete
sentence with no
explaining.)