Sentence stems

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

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

The Sentence Game Let’s face it, writing is hard. It takes lots and lots of practice to master the many skills a writer needs. But practice can be boring. Not now! I’ve created a sentence writing game your kids will love. With this game they’ll write sentence after sentence without complaining, because it’s a game. It’s very simple, but practices very essential skills- capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and spelling. The game can be played with 2 or more players. There’s even a way to…

free sentence starter page for teaching writing, would be perfect in a writing folder

Framed paragraphs are pre-writing tools that help students write well-developed paragraphs. They are skeleton formats containing information about the main ideas and transition words that guide the organization and the development of supportive details. Framed paragraphs offer a structure for students to use as they begin to write paragraphs and essays.

Classroom discussions / accountable talk | Sentence stems for students to lead the discussion.

This is the perfect sheet to hand out to your students to help them with the most basic sentence structures in English. Ideal for beginners to build a strong language foundation.

Want to guide your students through writing activities? Teacher Jenn Keigher's "transitions" sentence stems give learners vocabulary for starting,...