Sentence Stems - The Teacher Toolkit
Sentence Stems - The Teacher Toolkit is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
- Pose questions or a set a writing task for students. In pairs or independently, have students use sentence stems to respond.
- Ask students to share their sentences. Add any clarification where needed.
- Sentence stems provide scaffolding to help students get started in speaking or writing without the added pressure of thinking about how to correctly formulate a response.
- Create Create a list of sentence stems that are appropriate to the discussion or task you are setting the students.
- Be sure to provide stems that use academic language or sentence structure that is difficult for the students.
- Model Review stems with students and provide some examples of how to complete the sentence stems.
- Practice Pose questions or a set a writing task for students.
- In pairs or independently, have students use sentence stems to respond.
- Review Ask students to share their sentences.
- When to use Use Sentence Stems at any point in the lesson to structure meaningful conversation.
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Pose questions or a set a writing task for students. In pairs or independently, have students use sentence stems to respond.
Ask students to share their sentences. Add any clarification where needed.
Sentence stems provide scaffolding to help students get started in speaking or writing without the added pressure of thinking about how to correctly formulate a response.
Create Create a list of sentence stems that are appropriate to the discussion or task you are setting the students.
Be sure to provide stems that use academic language or sentence structure that is difficult for the students.
Model Review stems with students and provide some examples of how to complete the sentence stems.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Sentence Stems - The Teacher Toolkit. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Pose questions or a set a writing task for students. In pairs or independently, have students use sentence stems to respond.; Ask students to share their sentences. Add any clarification where needed.; Sentence stems provide scaffolding to help students get started in speaking or writing without the added pressure of thinking about how to correctly formulate a response.; Create Create a list of sentence stems that are appropriate to the discussion or task you are setting the students.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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