Sentence Starters for Writing a Response to a Text
1. When I read this, I felt __________________ about _______________________.
(shocked, scared, intrigued, bored, excited, angry, irritated, anxious, fascinated, etc.)
2. I agreed with the idea on page ______that _______________________ because______________.
3. I disagreed with the idea on page ______that ___________________ because______________.
4. The part about _________reminded me of ___________________because________________.
5. I didn’t understand what the writer was saying in the part where____________________.
6. My favorite part of the selection was when _________________________.
7. I could relate to the part about ______________ because ________________________.
8. If I were ____________________ from the reading, I would have _________________________.
9. I think the author included the detail about ____________________ in order to _____________.
10. One thing I didn’t like about this text was __________________________.