Correlative Conjunctions + Idioms/Adages/Proverbs Extended + Roots Part 3

Teacher reads 2 sentences with correlative conjunctions. Children identify the pair and the relationship signaled.

• Project sentences
• Ask 'which pair? what relationship?'
• Affirm specific identifications

Today you do three things: meet CORRELATIVE CONJUNCTIONS, extend the IDIOM/ADAGE/PROVERB set, and meet 4 more Greek/Latin roots. Correlative conjunctions (MG-14) work in PAIRS: EITHER/OR ('Either she went to the library or she went home' — presents two options). NEITHER/NOR ('Neither rain nor wind stopped the march' — negates both). BOTH/AND ('Both verse form and prose form serve memory' — joins as equal). NOT ONLY/BUT ALSO ('Not only does verse slow time, but it also lets memory breathe' — adds with emphasis on second). RULE: parts that follow each conjunction must be PARALLEL — same grammatical structure. WEAK: 'Not only did she write but also poetry.' STRONG: 'Not only did she write poetry but she also wrote prose.' (both parts have subject + verb + object). At least ONE correlative-conjunction pair in every essay. Now extend idioms/adages/proverbs. 12 new entries from mentor texts and cultural traditions. Idioms (figurative, not literal): 'jump on the bandwagon' / 'turn over a new leaf' / 'cost an arm and a leg' / 'piece of cake'. Adages (state truth): 'A picture is worth a thousand words' / 'Practice makes perfect' / 'Honesty is the best policy' / 'Beauty is in the eye of the beholder'. Proverbs (offer advice): 'Don't put all your eggs in one basket' / 'Better late than never' / 'Where there's smoke there's fire' / 'A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step'. Now meet next 4 roots: STRUCT (Latin = build) — structure, construct, instruct. TELE (Greek = far) — telephone, television, telegraph. AUTO (Greek = self) — automatic, autobiography, autograph. PHON (Greek = sound) — phonics, telephone, symphony.

• Notice: correlative pairs signal a SPECIFIC relationship (alternative / negation / combination / emphasis). Idioms are figurative; adages state truth; proverbs offer advice. The line between adage and proverb is fuzzy — that's okay.

  model See narrative.

  prompt Teacher shows correlative-conjunction parallel structure and 4 idiom-adage-proverb sorts.

• What relationship does NOT ONLY/BUT ALSO signal?
• What is the difference between an adage and a proverb?
• Name the root meaning 'self' and one example word.

M-5-F-GR-13-A Chart

Reproduction of MG-14 at 11x17: 4 paired-card slots (either/or, neither/nor, both/and, not only/but also) with worked sentence in each. Parallel-structure rule highlighted at bottom. Print-ready, dyslexic-friendly font.

MG-14 Chart

Correlative-conjunction anchor: 4 paired-card slots. EITHER/OR (blue) — 'Either she went to the library or she went home.' (presents two options) NEITHER/NOR (orange) — 'Neither the rain nor the wind stopped the march.' (negates both) BOTH/AND (green) — 'Both the verse form and the prose form serve memory.' (joins as equal) NOT ONLY/BUT ALSO (red) — 'Not only does verse slow time, but it also lets memory breathe.' (adds with emphasis on second). Bottom rule: 'Correlative conjunctions work in PAIRS. Keep parts that follow each conjunction PARALLEL (same grammatical structure).' Print-ready 11x17.

• Compose 2 sentences using correlative pairs (e.g., not-only/but-also AND either/or). Check parallelism.

  scaffold MG-14 paired-card deck; parallel-structure check card
• Sort 6 of the 12 new idioms/adages/proverbs into the 3 columns. Check.

  scaffold Extended sort board
• Use each of the 4 new roots in an example word and a one-sentence definition.

  scaffold Root card deck

• Add 1 correlative-conjunction pair to YOUR draft. Check parallelism.
• Sort 4 of the new idioms/adages/proverbs.
• Use 1 of the 4 new roots in a sentence.

• Star your correlative pair.
• Predict: tomorrow we deepen sentence variety with EXPAND-COMBINE-REDUCE.

• At home tonight, find 1 correlative-conjunction pair in your home reading. Note the parallelism.