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About the Cognates Strategy:
Using the cognates strategy supports English language learners in using their home language as a resource for learning new academic words in English. It is particularly helpful for students who speak Latin-based languages, such as Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian. Cognates are words that have a similar spelling, pronunciation, and meaning across two or more languages. When students recognize words as cognates, they can access unfamiliar English words and better understand what they read. Furthermore, some English science words are a special kind of cognate in Spanish, where the Spanish version of the word is a common word, and the English version is a more specialized science word (e.g., sol/solar; ácido/acid).
Connecting students’ home language to the scientific language they are learning in school is a powerful way to help students learn academic English. While the cognates strategy is designed to support English language learners, the same
principle applies to English-only students. That is, understanding the origins of science words, many of which are Latin, can help them understand other words with shared roots or affixes.
The following table lists English/Spanish cognates in all of the Seeds of Science/Roots of Reading books. To read more about teaching this strategy, and for a copymaster that can be used with any of the books below, click here.
Book |
English/Spanish Cognates |
Beach Postcards |
visit/visitar, content/contenido, report, glossary/glosario, material/material, rock/roca, form/forma, ocean/océano, family/familia, different/diferente, grains/granos, mountains/montañas, coral/coral, animal/animal, plant/planta |
Earthworms Underground |
absorb/absorber, adaptation/adaptación, adult/adulto, air/aire, animal/animal, different/diferente, divided/dividido, habitat/hábitat, imagine/imaginar, mix/mezclar, move/mover, nutrient/nutriente, organism/organismo, parts/partes, plant/planta, predator/depredador, protect/proteger
protection, reproduce, strange, survive, tube, use |
Gary’s Sand Journal |
observe/observar, color/color, mystery/misterio, collect/coleccionar, compose/componer, explain/explicar, volcano/volcán, mineral/mineral, rock/roca, important/importante, animal/animal, lava/lava, different/diferente |
Handbook of Forest Floor Animals |
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Handbook of Interesting Ingredients |
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Handbook of Sandy Beach Organisms |
insect, turtle, elephant seal, introduction, organism, plant, animal, survive, protect, information, predator, interesting, describe, falcon, marine, habitat, surprise, important, structure, common, color, current, tentacle, oxygen, ocean, stomach, direction |
Into the Soil |
animal, discover, important, million, nutrient, observe, organism, park, plant, poet, scientist, surprise, sprout |
Jelly Bean Scientist |
visiting/visitando, scientist/científico, invent/inventar, fruit/fruta, use/usar, different/diferente, substance/substancia, studied/estudiar, natural/natural, recipe/receta, lemon/limón, lime/lima, copy/copiar, machine/maquína, ingredient/ingrediente, acid/ácido, extra/extra, gas/gas, properties/propiedades, color/color, compare/comparar, mixture/mixtura, center/centro, mold/molde |
Jess Makes Hair Gel |
decide/decidir, ingredient/ingrediente, investigate/investigar, shampoo/champú, properties/propiedades, science/ciencia, substance/substancia, notes/notas, problem/problema, list/lista, color/color, gelatin/gelatina, minutes/minutos, dissolve/dissolver, idea/idea, different/diferente |
My Nature Notebook |
animal, different, evidence, explain, flowers, insect, marked, nature, observation, observe, plant, study, visit |
My Sea Otter Report |
report, ocean/océano, animal/animal, explain/explicar, survive/sobrevivir, decided/decidir, reference/referencia, notes/notas, dictionary/diccionario, marine/marino, rocks/rocas |
Shoreline Scientist |
scientist, nature, music, different, camping, decide, surf, observe, ocean, college, study, rock, class, force, process, erosion, animal, plan, mountain, move, investigate, form, problem, protect, electricity, truck, million, coast, habitat, cause student |
Snail Investigations |
center, cover, decided, different, evidence, expect, garden, habitat, hour, investigate, investigation, line, move, observe, paper, plants, results, student, surface, survival, terrarium |
Solving Dissolving |
mystery/misterio, dissolve/dissolver, lemonade/limonada, disappear/desaparecer, scientist/científico, evidence/evidencia, solid/sólido, properties/propiedades, substance/substancia, liquid/líquido, solution/solución, salt/sal, pure/puro, ocean/océano, soluble/solvable, metal/metal, investigation/investigación, inventor/inventor, material/material |
Talking with a Habitat Scientist |
airport, alligator, animal, depend, difference, family, flowers, habitat, imagine, important, include, interested, investigate, lion, maps, mountain, natural, north, nutrient, office, organism, part, plan, plant, nature, rocks, save scientist, space, study, survive |
The Black Tide |
coast, terrible, plastic, organism, current, habitat, important, scientist, marine, investigate, million, compare |
Walk in the Woods |
animal, evidence, imagine, investigate, millipede, mix, natural, nutrient, observe, organism, part, plant, scientist, studies |
What Are Roots? |
absorb, adaptation, air, cactus, different, desert, directions, important, liquid, nutrient, plant, rock, solid, special, survive, tube |
What Belongs on a Beach? |
ocean, rocks, different, currents, objects, animals, marine, plants, evidence, protect |
What If Rain Boots Were Made of Paper? |
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What Lives on a Sandy Beach? |
ocean/océano, animal/animal, predator/depredador, survive/sobrevivir, marine/marino, elephant/elefante, current, planta/planta |
What’s Stronger? The Forces That Cause Erosion |
rock/roca, mountain/montaña, forces/fuerza, nature/naturaleza, cause/causa, erosion/erosión, scientist/científico, material/material, study/estudiar, ocean/océano, canyon/cañón, glacier/glaciar, evidence/evidencia |
Without Soil |
absorb, air, animal, cover, depend, difference, example, flowers, fruits, garden, habitat, imagine, important, insects, nutrient, nuts, ocean, plant, predator, protect, rock, sugar, survive, vitamins |
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