Izabela Pablo Pedro, ESL teacher at Forest Hill shared with us these terrific Language Lines sentence frames; they are aligned to 6 reading comprehension skills of cause/effect, classifying, compare/contrast, evaluating, predicting, and summarizing. The frames are color coded  to give the teacher an opportunity to differentiate the language skills for students in their classroom. Starting with purple for basic sentence development, the next color is blue for a step up in complexity, followed by brown,  red and finally green at the highest level of sentence complexity.

These are found on the The Positive Engagement Project website; this is a nonprofit dedicated to supporting teachers and students.

Inspired by our SIOP workshop, Patton ESL teacher, Dana Lail created sentence starters for her English learners to support their academic conversations about texts they are reading.  She categorized her sentence starters as follows:

• Opinion Sentence Starters
• Text Connections Sentence Starters
• Reading Response Sentence Starters
• Outcome Sentence Starters

Dana created posters of the sentence starters:

and here is a link to files of the sentence starters in our ELL Resource Livebinder where you can get electronic versions; these sentence starters are half pages and can be laminated and put on a ring for each student.

Welcome to the SIOP Blog for Burke County Educators

Welcome to our SIOP Blog in Burke as we chronicle our journeys to implement SIOP in our classrooms through SIOP components that support access to content as well as language development for our English learners. We spent three wonderful days in August learning alongside Dr. Joan Lachance about the eight components of SIOP, reflecting on the needs of English learners and all learners in our classrooms!