We have found the use of sentence frames extremely useful for fostering oral and written language in the math classroom. Giving our English Language Learners this scaffold allows them to fill in the blanks with the concept, and focus on the math while practising correct sentence structure.
Thanks to our Early Literacy Teacher, Jenn Black, for sharing the resource below, a handy "quick reference" of possible sentence stems for the math classroom. The frames in the doc were compiled from Rusty Bresser, Kathy Melanese, and Christine Sphar's "Supporting English Language Learners in Math Class, K-2" (pages 164-165) and "Supporting English Language Learners in Math Class, 3-5" (167-169), 2009.
Thanks to our Early Literacy Teacher, Jenn Black, for sharing the resource below, a handy "quick reference" of possible sentence stems for the math classroom. The frames in the doc were compiled from Rusty Bresser, Kathy Melanese, and Christine Sphar's "Supporting English Language Learners in Math Class, K-2" (pages 164-165) and "Supporting English Language Learners in Math Class, 3-5" (167-169), 2009.
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