Developing Biliteracy: Set 10
Cross Linguistic Connections: Syntax State Standards L.3.1.H Use coordinating conjunctions and subordinating conjunctions. L.3.1.H Usar las conjunciones coordinantes y subordinantes.
Introduction
Student Investigation
Read We Must Protect Old-Growth Forests to your students.
Say: With your partners, find examples of the subordinating conjunctions if/si on pages 12, 24, and 26 in the English and Spanish books. Identify the independent sentence and the subordinate or dependent clause and discuss their relationship.
Say: We are going to learn about the subordinating conjunction if/si in English and Spanish. The subordinating conjunction if/si joins a conditional clause to the main sentence and adds information.
Mini-Lesson In bilingual pairs, have students look at the following sentences on page 6 of the English book. If they are cut down, they will be gone forever. If you have never been to an old-growth forest, you may not know what it is. Say: A subordinating conjunction is a word or phrase that connect a dependent or subordinate clause to an independent clause or sentence. The word if shows that a condition needs to be met for something to happen. For example, you need to go to an old-growth forest to know what it is. Have students look at the same sentences on page 6 of the Spanish book. Si se lo tala, habrá desaparecido para siempre. Si nunca has estado en un bosque virgen, tal vez no sepas cómo es. Ask: What do you notice about the use of subordinating conjunctions if and si in English and Spanish? Partner talk: I notice that in English and in Spanish, the subordinating conjunctions (if) and (si) express (condition) and (connect) the (subordinating) clause with the main (sentence).
Partner talk: On page 24, the subordinating conjunction (if) and (si) shows that a (condition) needs to be met for something to happen. For example, it (connects) lots of tourists need to visit the old-growth forest/un montón de turistas deben visitar el bosque virgen (with) for people not to destroy it/es menos probable que lo destruyan. Say: Let’s summarize what we have learned.
Cross Linguistic Connections Biliteracy para todos
Teaching for language connections
Biliteracy para todos
Teaching for language connections
Biliteracy para todos
Teaching for language connections
Biliteracy para todos Teaching for language connections
Biliteracy para todos Teaching for language connections
Biliteracy para todos
SYNTAX ANCHOR CHART Subordinating Conjunctions
Teaching for language connections
Uses in English
Examples
Uses in Spanish
The subordinating conjunction if describes the condition that needs to be met for something to happen. It joins the main sentence or independent clause and the subordinate or dependent clause.
If old-growth forests are cut down, trees like General Sherman will be gone forever (p.12) Si se talan los bosques vírgenes, los árboles como el General Sherman desaparecerán para siempre (p.12)
The subordinating conjunction if describes the condition that needs to be met for something to happen. It joins the main sentence or independent clause and the subordinate or dependent clause.
Cross Linguistic Connections: Syntax
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Review Say: Let’s think and write about what we have learned. Read the anchor chart with the students. Then have students reflect upon this in their journals using these sentence stems: In English and in Spanish, the subordinating conjunctions _____ and _____ express _____ and they join a _____ and a _____. For example, _____ with _____.
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