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Given this weeks focus on conjunctions, and especially subordinating conjunctions, now seems like a particularly good time to publish this worksheet on the grammatical concept of subordination. This is a half-page worksheet with a two-sentence reading and three comprehension questions.

Nota bene, please, that the second sentence, in two parts separated by a colon, contains an example of sentence that contains a subordinate clause. This might confuse emergent readers; that said, it’s a well constructed sentence. When I consider the meaning the sentence tries to convey, I’m not sure what I would do to change it.

So if you come up with something interesting, I would appreciate hearing about it.

If you find typos in this document, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the noun subject as a grammatical term–i.e. the subject of a sentence. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of three sentences and four comprehension questions.

But, as with most of these documents, there are a couple of caveats here: these are long and busy sentences with several colons and semicolons in play. And the worksheet itself is a bit crowded. I use other materials in my units to teach subjects, so I haven’t used this. If I did, I would probably rewrite the sentences to simplify them, then turn this into a full-page worksheet. Clarifying the meaning of the polysemous word subject, and helping students understand how a subject operates in a sentence, strike me as foundational material in the high school curriculum.

If you find typos in this document, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.