We're Baaaack!
I'm going to type this, make 30 copies, and keep them in plastic sleeves. On days when I hold a graded discussion, I'm going to hand them out to help those students who find it difficult to join the conversation. And, it gives students a chance to come up with other conversation starters that can be added as the year progresses. They simply take the page out of the sleeve and add to it.
Starting Out with Sentence Stems
The Science Penguin|Sentence Stems Printable|As usual, this innovative educational science blog (which also occasionally branches out into other content areas, such as math and social studies here), has ideas and resources that will be helpful for all struggling learners, but particularly ELLs. These free sentence starters in 3 core content area subjects will be useful to ELLs who are still learning to frame academic thoughts in English.