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Connective Words
To view a large list of common connective words listed by category, click here.
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To view more about complex connective words, read on.
How can children have fun with complex connective words? The answer to that question is found further down this page.
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Now, please keep reading to learn how children can have fun with complex connective words! Moms and Dads, How your students begin their sentences will determine the difference between a good, humdrum paper and an outstanding, superior paper. Your students can have fun learning to use complex connective words: subordinate phrases, prepositional phrases, participial phrases, and infinitive phrases. Children as young as four years old can have fun making up clauses and phrases with complex connective-word phrases if this activity is in game form.
Play simple games making up sentences that begin with complex connective-word phrases. You can play these games with your children while traveling in the car, while waiting in the doctor’s office, or while gathering around the dinner table.
QUESTION: What do we mean when we talk about complex connective-word phrases, and how are these complex phrases different from just common, basic connective words?
ANSWER:
To answer that
question, let's begin by defining
what connective words are
and how connective
words function.
The use of common connective words placed inside simple sentences using simple sentence structures is a standard way of connecting parts of a sentence. Therefore, these types of simple sentences containing simple connective words within common sentence patterns follow what are called “common readability formulas.” Most sentences in today’s
textbooks and curriculum are written using common readability formulas,
and good students use these formulas all the time when they talk,
compose, and write. Therefore, when we are teaching
our children about sentence structures, we should not settle for just
common readability formulas. We can help our children to strive
for excellence in their writing by enabling them to use
complex sentences
that open with complex
phrases containing complex
connective words that
make their readers thirsty to read more.
So striving to write excellent sentences and learning to use
more and more complex
connective-word phrases
is just the
beginning of learning how to express thoughts that honor and serve God's
purposes.
Children
can begin to “naturally” think with
complex connective-word sentence openers
even before they can actually read and write, if they are asked to “make
them up” as part of a game.
Each phrase will include some tidbit about an animal, enough to provide an opportunity for further research about the animal and/or give a strong topic sentence for further paragraph or story development.
After the placid, purple puppy flew over the ferocious yellow snapping turtle, he. . .
However, complex connective-word phrases not only connect the reader with the rest of the sentence, they make the reader "thirsty" to read the rest of the sentence.
Four types of sentence openers that begin with complex
connective-word phrases are:
So subordinate clauses leave the reader thirsty to read the rest of the sentence.
Remember, subordinate clauses begin with either a subordinate conjunction or a relative pronoun. Here are some examples of both:
even if even
though THE SUBORDINATE CLAUSE PATTERN
lambs is the subject of this subordinate clause
wandered is the verb of this subordinate clause
Whomever Mr. Sniffles selected to paint polka dots on his plump pumpkins, that boy or girl would . . . Whomever is the relative pronoun. Mr. Sniffles is the subject of this subordinate clause selected is
the verb of this subordinate clause As is the subordinate conjunction. Teddy is the subject of this subordinate clause tumbled is the
verb of this subordinate clause
Whichever is the relative pronoun. pickle is the subject of this subordinate clause picked is the
verb of this subordinate clause
An Infinitive Phrase will almost always start with the word "to" followed by the simple form of a verb.
The pattern will look like this:
To gulp his potatoes down in one bite, Arnold jumped in place while. . .
PARTICIPLES AND PARTICIPIAL PHRASES
A participle is a verbal that is used as an adjective. The pattern will look like this:
THE EASIEST PARTICIPIAL PHRASES TO TEACH TO CHILDREN The easiest participial phrases to place into a game should begin with
participles that end in -ing. Panicking
is the participle Laughing hysterically is the participial phrase
PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES
A Prepositional Phrase is a group of words made up of a preposition, the object of the preposition, and any other words that modify the object.
LIST OF PREPOSITIONS (Note: Children as young as 1st grade can play the game where they take recite all the prepositions in one breath.
aboard about above across after against along amid
among around as to at
THE PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE PATTERN The
pattern will look like this:
Between the putrid pieces of pumpernickel bread, Polly placed a teeny weeny pickle and a pint-sized peanut. Between is the preposition the is a modifier putrid is a modifier pieces is the object of the preposition
of is the preposition pumpernickel is a modifier bread is the object of the preposition
BEGIN CHILDREN EARLY WITH COMPLEX CONNECTIVE WORD GAMES.
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