Academic Sentence Frames & Discussion Cards for ESL ELL Multilingual Learners | Grades 3-8
Help every multilingual learner join the conversation. This set covers 12 academic language skills used in every subject, each with sentence frames at three levels (Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced), so students in a mixed group can talk about the same idea at their own level.
Skills: Describe, Compare & Contrast, Sequence, Cause & Effect, Give an Opinion, Use Evidence, Agree & Disagree, Ask & Clarify, Summarize, Predict & Hypothesize, Classify, Explain My Math Thinking.
What's inside (35-page PDF + 49-slide PowerPoint):
- Teacher guide: choosing a level, modeling, pairing across levels, fading frames
- 12 anchor posters (all three levels on each)
- 36 discussion cards with a partner move on every card
- Desk strips for each level
- 6 discussion role cards
- Signal-word banks for Math, Science, Social Studies and ELA
- Student 'I can' talk tracker
- Interactive slides: 36 type-in frame slides + 12 drag-the-words sentence builders
Levels match to your state's English language proficiency levels; they are a planning guide, not a test score. English-only.
Designed by a classroom teacher and instructional coach. Illustrations are created with AI tools; all content is written and reviewed for standards alignment and classroom use.
Single-teacher license.
