The Connections Standards

and Linguistic Difficulty


     The connections standards frequently ask students to talk about the text in the third person, as a group of ideas or abstract concepts.  Typically, two or three connected sentences will be generated to describe locations and thus make more extensive use of prepositions ("Here is the library.  The history books are on the top shelf").  Connecting what the text says to a students' expression of its information also calls for subordinate clauses with "that" to connect the position of the speaker with the information in the text ("I think that the library is a very large room") and relative clauses to express relationships ("Those are the books that Scarlett's father reads").

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