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TitleGrammar Patterns in English and Spanish
SourceCASLS Activity of the Week
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By Mary Hudgens Henderson, University of New Mexico

Lesson adapted from Language Variation and Style-Shifting for Fifth Graders curriculum

Target Audience

This lesson was originally written for Spanish-English bilingual 5th graders in the US, although it can be adapted for other levels of students (and other languages). If necessary, review parts of speech with students (verbs, adjectives, nouns, pronouns, adverbs).

Rationale

In this lesson, students compare and contrast grammatical patterns in their two languages to increase metalinguistic awareness. This makes explicit what students may have only known implicitly before: the two languages each achieve the same communicative goal. Students recognize that the two languages have similarities and differences in the grammar, and one grammar pattern is not inherently superior to the other.

Objective

Students will compare and contrast grammatical patterns in English and Spanish to increase metalinguistic awareness.

Download the lesson with the full procedure, reference to Common Core standards for English language arts, and supporting information here.

The language patterns worksheet is available here.

Publishdate2015-06-01 02:15:01