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Knowledge and Skills Statement

Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--writing process. The student uses the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts that are legible and uses appropriate conventions.

Deles a los estudiantes tres párrafos creados por el maestro que tengan errores con las conjunciones coordinantes. Esto puede realizarse en tres actividades diferentes: oraciones compuestas, sujetos compuestos y predicados compuestos. Pídales a los estudiantes que corrijan los textos haciendo uso correcto de las conjunciones coordinantes.

Notas importantes:

  • Sujetos y predicados compuestos con una conjunción coordinante no requieren el uso de la coma.
  • Oraciones compuestas requieren de una conjunción coordinante y pueden llevar coma.


Further Explanation

Esta expectativa estudiantil requiere que los estudiantes demuestren comprensión de cómo las conjunciones coordinantes establecen relación entre las palabras, frases o enunciados independientes en una oración mediante la correcta edición de textos dados.

The subject of a sentence can carry out two or more actions in the predicate (the part of the sentence containing the verb). The verbs expressing these actions will be joined by a coordinating conjunction. For example, in the sentence Mario trató de limpiar muy bien su cuarto, pero olvidó barrer debajo de la cama, the subject Mario both trató and olvidó. The conjunction pero indicates a contrast or conflict between something intended and the outcome.
Coordinating conjunctions (pero, aunque, ya que, o sea, es decir, sin embargo, y, o, ni) can be placed between two independent clauses to create a compound sentence. The coordinating conjunction appears between the two independent clauses and should be preceded by a comma. When the two clauses have a clear relationship that can be conveyed by a conjunction, students may choose to combine clauses that could otherwise make sense on their own (e.g., No pudimos salir a jugar al patio, ya que la lluvia no paró toda la mañana).
Sentences can have two (or more) subjects that have the same syntactical value in a sentence and share the same verb/predicate. These subjects will be joined by a coordinating conjunction to indicate their relationship. For example, in the sentence Los niños y las niñas pueden participar en el concurso de baile, the conjunction y indicates that both niños and niñas (subjects in the sentence) are allowed to participar (participate) in the dancing contest.
During the editing stage of the writing process, students further improve their drafts and often prepare for publication by correcting conventions errors. Ensuring that the standards of the Spanish language have been applied correctly helps the audience more easily comprehend the information because they do not have to interrupt their thinking to determine what the writer intended to say.
standard rules of the Spanish language, including written mechanics such as punctuation, capitalization, spelling, paragraphing, etc. and written/oral grammar such as parts of speech, word order, subject-verb agreement, and sentence structure