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One reason “before” is difficult to understand in sentences is that, sometimes, the sequence of events described does not match the word order of the sentence, e.g. “Before I put on my jacket, I put on my shoes.” Many people with language difficulties use a strategy of doing things in the order they are named. This is why many young children hearing the instruction above will put on their jackets first, and then their shoes, rather than the other way around.
In this 16-page language workout, we provide lots of examples of “before” in familiar routines. We have elected to use “before” as a conjunction (rather than as a preposition or adverb) to stimulate complex sentence development. We have used pictures as well as the words to support people who can read, and those that can’t.
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This no-prep 30-page picture description resource is designed to help by providing a bridge between highly structured sentence-level exercises (like Sentence Builders) and discourse level text types (like narratives).
Featuring 25 high quality, interesting photos, this resource includes scaffolds for “before” and “after” sentence generation, with 150 prompts for different parts of speech, and different types of clauses, that allow you to target your syntax goal (or goals), while using evidence-based language therapy techniques like recasting, building up and breaking down, extensions and expansions, focused stimulation and modelling.
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Good places to start helping students with complex syntax include:
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- conjoined sentences (e.g. sentences with two ideas joined by “but”, “and” or “or”) (see our FANBOYS Coordinating Conjunctions Bundle); and
- complex sentences with early developing subordinate conjunctions, such as “because”, “if”, “when” and “while”.
This 160+ page no-prep bundle of subordinating conjunctions provides scaffolded practice in formulating sentences containing key 8 conjunctions – ‘because’, ‘if’, ‘when’, ‘while’, ‘before’, ‘after’, ‘until’ and ‘unless’. Over 290 scaffolded sentences with both picture and orthographic cues – all tried and tested in our speech pathology clinic.
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This 650+ page workbook includes scaffolded writing practice to help students of all ages generate a variety of complex sentences using subordinating conjunctions, including:
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- “because” – for cause and effect relationships;
- “although” – for contrastive relationships;
- “if”, “unless” and “until” – for conditional relationships; and
- “while”, “before” and “after” – for relationships between events connected by time.
For each conjunction, sentence fragment exercises have been included to kick-start complex sentence writing. To support people with additional language and learning needs, the modules feature topics that require a minimal amount of background knowledge, and include examples and scaffolds to help model and support students of all abilities.
