Creating Cohesion Worksheet
Use this worksheet to encourage students to improve their persuasive writing by integrating text connectives into their writing. Students will come up with arguments for and against a topic, then construct a variety of sentences, using different types of text connectives, to strengthen their argument.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to understand that writers use the beginning of a sentence or paragraph to signal the reader about how a text is developing, so the reader can make predictions.
- We are learning to understand that writers use the beginning of a sentence to signal the reader about how a text is developing, so the reader can make predictions.
Curriculum alignment
AC9E5LA04
9
Understand how texts can be made cohesive by using the starting point of a sentence or paragraph to give prominence to the message and to guide the reader through the text
ACELA1505
8.4
Understand that the starting point of a sentence gives prominence to the message in the text and allows for prediction of how the text will unfold
EN3-3A
old
Uses an integrated range of skills, strategies and knowledge to read, view and comprehend a wide range of texts in different media and technologies
EN3-RECOM-01
new
Fluently reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes, analysing text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
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