Sentence frames & Sentence starters

What are sentence frames/starters?

Sentence frames and sentence starters can be used to help SLIFE produce the language and form their thoughts for writing and speaking. This helps give SLIFE an idea and a starting point of what to say or write. Not only does this help SLIFE, but it can help ALL learners.

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Colorin Colorado has a resource filled with different ways to incorporate sentence frames and starters into the classroom.

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Discussion/Writing Sentence Frames/Starters

You can use this in the classroom to help SLIFE participate in a discussion or in certain writing contexts. You can also provide a word bank for words they could use for the empty spaces in the sentence frames.

**Remy Dankers created this resource. You may download it, make changes to it, and use it in your area of influences as you feel fit.

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Speech Outline Sentence Frames/Starters

This is an editable version of a speech outline you can use that has sentence frames and starters. You can make changes as you see fit for your students and the topic of the speech.

**Remy Dankers created this resource. You may download it, make changes to it, and use it in your area of influences as you see fit.

Editable Speech Outline (docx)

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Higher order thinking questions

This can be used to support learners in speaking and writing by giving them sentence starters and frames to guide their questioning.

**Remy Dankers created this resource. You may download it, make changes to it, and use it in your area of influences as you see fit.

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References

Sentence Frames and  Sentence Starters (2025). Colorín Colorado. https://www.colorincolorado.org/teaching-ells/ell-classroom-strategy-library/sentence-frames

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