By the end of the lesson, you will know how to use sentence frames in a variety of contexts and have ideas for trying them in your own classroom.
Instructions: read and explore the resources below before completing the form to check your mastery of the concept and get tips on using it.
Currator: Jason McCoy
The ¡Colorín Colorado! website is an excellent resource for sentence frames and sentence starters: https://www.colorincolorado.org/sentence-frames
The videos below will help you to understand how to use sentence frames with your students.
Dr. Sandra Quiñones produced this video in 2019 and serves as an Associate Professor of Teacher Education at the University of Connecticut.
In October of '21, Maher and I gave a presentation to general education teachers about ESOL students. This is the section of that presentation about sentence stems and frames.
For her ESL students, Hannah Davis believes writing out thoughts is especially important, albeit difficult. She uses Sentence Stems to help them with their critical thinking. Students can finish a sentence based on experience level without being overwhelmed. Find more at theteachertoolkit.com
¡Colorín Colorado!'s website has some great sentence frames: https://www.colorincolorado.org/sentence-frames
If you are looking for extended response or essay sentence frames in English, history, math, or science, you can find them here: https://sites.google.com/view/mlltoolbox/paragraph-writing-tools
At a COCA PD, I found this set of discussion stems that has been very useful: COCA Stems
Rooted Linguistics has some math and general sentence stems and frames: https://www.valentinaesl.com/blog/sentence-stems-or-sentence-frames
The Texas Education Agency has a deep collection of general sentence stems and frames here: https://www.txel.org/media/uzkla5kw/elps-sentenceframes.pdf
The Math Department created these stems to create short written responses to justify answers and describe graphs: Math Stems
Kathleen Saalfeld created art sentence stems that are very useful: Art Stems
Emily Welch provided me with these CER (Claim, Evidence, Reasoning) stems: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s4zvFzQpR53OdBUlwwmIKIijQ-6ndOP_/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=111352336254388900992&rtpof=true&sd=true
Sentence Stems for Comprehension Strategies: https://www.rcsdk12.org/cms/lib/NY01001156/Centricity/Domain/2096/SentenceStemsforComprehensionStrategiesandSkills.pdf
DBQ Sentence Stems: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ct7lpyRjLGDFJXs4DIFc8ULGX65mvdWl/view?usp=drive_link
For more information similar to the Sentence Frames Strategies, try this:
ESOL Support Handout from SLPS ESOL Bilingual Migrant Program: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lHDmHFdbqvh2UAg0yJsns3ur6fs8p2HV/view?usp=sharing
The link below leads to a form that will ask you to apply sentence stems a situation before asking you to provide parts of an activity or lesson that uses sentence stems. Click on the link above.