I created this table of math sentence starters as a tool to help my English Learners (and all of my students, really) to get their sentences started during math :)

These math sentence starters are meant to be used as a scaffold for students to use during partner, small group and whole class discussions. I have found them to be very helpful for students while I am using talk moves in the classroom because they give students some inertia as they work on bringing their ideas from their heads to saying them out loud. I have also had my students refer to these sentence starters when they explain and/or justify how they approached solving a problem, when I introduce new concepts, as exit tickets, and when I want them to think metacognitively, etc. The categories included are "explain," "agree," "extend," "clarify," "disagree," and "synthesize."

As with all of the resources I create, this handout / poster is one of the resources I wish someone would have shared with me as a beginning teacher. My hope is that this handout / poster will be a resource you can flex and use in a variety of ways.

I would love to hear your feedback on how you will use, modify or improve this handout / poster, so I can continue to provide only the highest quality resources for you all. Thank you so much for taking a look at this resource and if you love it, please check out the other resources on my TpT page. Thanks again!