TIMECODE COMMENT GRAPHICS
TEXT:
Common core: ELA
Delivering and Evaluating a Persuasive Speech
00:02:00 STACY BREWER: What is the author’s viewpoint about exploring? TEXT:
Strategies:
TIMECODE COMMENT GRAPHICS
TEXT:
Common core: ELA
Delivering and Evaluating a Persuasive Speech
00:02:00 STACY BREWER: What is the author’s viewpoint about exploring? TEXT:
Strategies:
Sentence Frames
00:02:08 STACY BREWER: A sentence frame is a strategy that I use, especially for my English language learners to give them an opportunity to answer a question. TEXT:
The author thinks exploring is ________
Stacy Brewer
5th Grade teacher
Stevenson Elementary – Bellevue, WA
00:02:18 STACY BREWER: It’s basically the setup of a sentence with a piece missing from it so that they can fill-in in the information. TEXT:
I think Lewis and Clark were ________ because _________
00:02:26 STACY BREWER: I’ve taken part of the job of writing away from the students so they can focus on the content.
00:02:32 STACY BREWER: If you were going to fill-in this sentence, how would you fill it in? The author thinks exploring is… TEXT:
The author thinks exploring is ________
00:02:40 BOY: I think it’s exciting because you could find out new stuff about different things you never knew about.
00:02:47 STACY BREWER: I write the sentence frames on sentence strips to help provide the students with the language that I’d like to hear them using when they’re talking about the answer and writing about the answer. TEXT:
I think Lewis and Clark were ________ because _________
00:02:59 STACY BREWER: How does the author feel about Lewis and Clark? In order to answer this question, you’re going to have to prove it to me.
00:03:09 BOY: I think the author feels like that Lewis and Clark are very strong because they have to go through all these dangers and hazards.
00:03:17 STACY BREWER: The sentence frames especially help my English language learners because it gives them a structure for answering the questions. It helps all of my students be successful.
00:03:27 BOY: I think that Lewis and Clark were very brave because it says that Lewis considered the Mandan Indian stories about huge bears to be fanciful tales until one of the explorers was chased by a grizzly bear.
00:03:44 STACY BREWER: Do you think you would have enough proof to be able to say that the author feels that Lewis and Clark is brave?
00:03:49 STACY BREWER: The sentence frames help my students to understand what an answer might look like. For most of my students, I let them know that it’s optional, but it gives students an option for starting so they’re not staring at the paper not knowing where to begin. TEXT:
The author thinks exploring is dangerous. Challenging and difficult. Accident.
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30 Comments
Kassandra Amaya Oct 14, 2023 9:52am
A) She gives her students the opportunity of using sentence frames because it gives them the chance to answer a question. Its a set up of a sentence and it their duty to fill in the missing piece. Its gives them the option on how to start the answer instead of just staring blankly at the paper.
B) Its best to keeping the sentece frame as vague as possible. Nothing to specific where there is only one answer, but more like keeping the key words blank so that the students can simply guess and try to support their answers.\
C) It is an effective strategy for ELLs because it gives them a structure to answering the questions and helps them to be successful. It gives them a visual representaton as to what an answer might look like.
Michelle McGovern Feb 7, 2023 10:10pm
I loved the idea of sentences frames. I learned about it while at the 2023 RTI Conference with Anita Archer. I teach in a little village in Alaska. My students have a hard time with writing. This sounds like a great way to get them started. I am so excited to try it with my students.
Michelle McGovern
Alexis Marin Feb 26, 2021 6:02pm
I think senetence frames are a great way to show students how to structurally write a sentence. Sentence frames make it easier for students and allow them to focus on the main idea. This provide a framework for students to work with and add their own ideas too. I think this may be tricky to use in a physical education enviroment but it is a very useful tool when in a discussion. I also think senetence frames are a way of providing lagnauge supports for students. As the teacher mentioned this helps her students understand the language she wants them using when they are talking and writting about the asnwer.
Leah Wideman Oct 6, 2020 12:24am
I've used sentence frames with eighth grades, and it works just as well as it did with these younger students. Sentence frames are great because they provide the student with the teacher's expectation of how she wants them to respond, it takes away some of the anxiety of coming up with a full idea, and it helps kickstart discussion. A lot of kids just don't know where to start with a response, so sentence frames really aid in that.
Lynnae Ilbrink Oct 2, 2020 5:09pm
Sam Muhlena (My comment):
I agree with the video in that it says that sentence frames allow students to see what an appropriate answer to a question is like. I think that it does do that for many students, not just for ELL. But I can see how helpful sentence frames must be for new English Language learners. I believe that many students start out struggling to answer a question in a way that makes sense. This is a great way to help students understand what parts of an answer should be incorporated. Sentence frames allow for students to focus more on the content of the answer, rather than trying to hurry and write something correctly. More focus is put onto the content, which is awesome.