Tagged: ELL teaching tools

Improving Turn and Talk Using Sentence Frames

“Turn and talk” has become a common practice in classrooms. But what’s really happening in those conversations? Alma Ortiz-Agib and Sunday Cummins have found that students, including English learners, benefit from using collaborative language frames to make the talk meaningful.

Strong Sentence Frames to Support Your ELLs

By clearly defining language objectives and developing related sentence frames we can boost language development and impact English language learners’ reading and writing growth significantly. Alma Ortiz-Agib and Sunday Cummins share strategies developed in real classrooms.