Sentence frames

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Sentence stems and sentence frames are powerful tools for helping elementary school students, particularly English learners, learn academic language.

In upper grade classrooms, students spend a great deal of time responding to the texts they read. Over the years I have found that no matter what grade level I teach, students have a difficult time writing thorough and meaningful reading responses. At the start of every year my students need quite a bit of guidance when writing their responses. One of the best ways that I have found to teach students to write meaningful responses is by providing them with sentence frames. I like to encourage…

Using sentence starters and sentence frames is one strategy to support students in speaking, reading, and writing. A sentence starter is when you give students the beginning part of a sentence and they fill in the rest. A sentence frame is when there are blanks inside a sentence that students fill in. Here are some

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Are you looking for a way to get your students to participate and contribute to discussion during math talk? This FREE set of math talk sentence starters by Hello Learning includes 18 speech bubbles with sentence frames and a matching bookmark for students. Hang the math talk sentence starters up on a bulletin board for a great reference during math discussions. Help your students become effective communicators with this free resource. Click to sign up and grab the resource today!

Sentence stems help students communicate what they are thinking about, help many students with special needs, and provide focus for our lesson.

Discover how sentence frames can make a big difference during math instruction with these helpful tips from a veteran teacher,

Teaching young students to write can be hard with they are not yet reading. Using a blended approach that teaches writing using the sight words and phonetic skills that students have learned is very effective. Sentence stems can be a great help in this process. Not only do students learn to write these high frequency words but they also get lots of exposure to reading them too. This blog post details how you can teaching writing with sentence frames in the kindergarten and 1st grade class.

Back to school ideas to teach your students about sentences and their parts. This color-coded resource is perfect for K-1 literacy centers.