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.