# Academic Language Sentence Frame Generator

Generate tiered sentence frames for academic tasks that scaffold language production...

- Repository: https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills (939 stars)
- Category: Engineering
- License: see repository
- Last updated: 2026-10-22
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill academic-language-sentence-frame-generator -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill academic-language-sentence-frame-generator -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill academic-language-sentence-frame-generator -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill academic-language-sentence-frame-generator -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add GarethManning/education-agent-skills`

## Description

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.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# 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.

## Evidence Foundation

The rest: https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills/blob/HEAD/skills/eal-language-development/academic-language-sentence-frame-generator/SKILL.md