Academic Language Sentence Frame Generator
Generate tiered sentence frames for academic tasks that scaffold language production...
Install
npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill academic-language-sentence-frame-generator -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- GarethManning/education-agent-skills939
- Category
- Engineering
- Updated
- 13d ago
- License
- See repository
- Context cost
- Mediumabout 3,000 tokens
- Runs scripts
- No, instructions only
What it does
Generate tiered sentence frames for academic tasks that scaffold language production across proficiency levels. Use when EAL students need structured language support for classroom discourse.
Academic Language Sentence Frame Generator
What This Skill Does
Generates sentence frames and discourse markers appropriate for a specific academic task type and language proficiency level. Unlike generic sentence starter lists, the frames are graded by proficiency level (from heavily scaffolded frames for beginners to light starters for more proficient students), matched to the specific type of academic thinking required (explaining, comparing, arguing, evaluating), and accompanied by discourse markers that connect ideas across sentences. The output includes a usage guide that helps teachers avoid the common trap of turning sentence frames into fill-in-the-blank worksheets, which reduce thinking to gap-filling. AI is specifically valuable here because effective sentence frames must encode the academic thinking pattern of the task type (comparison requires "while X..., Y..." structures; evaluation requires "Although..., the evidence suggests...") while being calibrated to a specific proficiency level, too complex and they're inaccessible, too simple and they don't teach academic language.
