EnglishYear 5Writing

Build cohesion within and across paragraphs

Use adverbials, conjunctions and other linking devices to build cohesion within and across paragraphs

What you'll learn

  1. 1

    Imagine telling a story about your weekend. You use words like 'first', 'then', 'later' to link your ideas together.

  2. 2

    Which word helps link two parts of a story?

  3. 3

    Drag the linking words into the right order to make a story flow.

  4. 4

    Let's join two sentences together with a linking word.

  5. 5

    Use a linking word to join these two ideas: 'The sun was shining. We went to the beach.'

  6. 6

    Which linking word fits best? 'I was tired, ___ I went to bed.'

  7. 7

    Which linking word shows time order? '___ we ate dinner, we watched a film.'

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