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
Imagine telling a story about your weekend. You use words like 'first', 'then', 'later' to link your ideas together.
- 2
Which word helps link two parts of a story?
- 3
Drag the linking words into the right order to make a story flow.
- 4
Let's join two sentences together with a linking word.
- 5
Use a linking word to join these two ideas: 'The sun was shining. We went to the beach.'
- 6
Which linking word fits best? 'I was tired, ___ I went to bed.'
- 7
Which linking word shows time order? '___ we ate dinner, we watched a film.'
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