Math talk sentence starters

To help children build their mathematical comprehension, we need to give them more opportunities to talk about math. My school system will be adopting "Go Math" this year, and they have built math talk right into their lessons. It is something that most teachers do naturally, but I think it is an area that we can become more conscious of, and try new ways to include it in our lessons. There is a great article called "Math Talk 101" on Scholastic. It shares ways to get started with math talk…

Talking about math

Are you looking for a way to get your students to participate and contribute to discussion during math talk? This FREE set of math talk sentence starters by Hello Learning includes 18 speech bubbles with sentence frames and a matching bookmark for students. Hang the math talk sentence starters up on a bulletin board for a great reference during math discussions. Help your students become effective communicators with this free resource. Click to sign up and grab the resource today!

Teach your students how to have accountable talk using these sentence starters and stems. These speech bubbles contain rules and stems for students to use as prompts for having conversations in reading, writing, and math. These can be used on an anchor chart in primary or elementary classrooms. I also have bookmarks, lessons, and posters for teaching all about accountable talk and what is accountable talk!

Sentence stems help students communicate what they are thinking about, help many students with special needs, and provide focus for our lesson.

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