Are you teaching your students to recognise and write complex sentences with subordinating conjunctions? These I SAW A WABUB poster displays will be the perfect scaffold and support for your students!
I SAW A WABUB is a helpful acronym for remembering common subordinating conjunctions, which are essential for connecting dependent clauses to independent clauses. Students can this mnemonic to identify when and how to properly use subordinating conjunctions in their writing.
Featuring a range of different designs as well student scaffold templates, using the I SAW A WABUB mnemonic for subordinating conjunctions:
If - introduces conditional clauses
Since - indicates cause and effect, why something happened
As - indicates time or manner in which something happens
When - specifies a particular time or event, used in time-related clauses
Although - introduces contrasting ideas
While - shows two actions happening at the same time
After - shows the order or sequence of events
Before- shows the order or sequence of events
Until - indicates a point in time
Because - gives a reason or cause for something