Practise and revise using cohesion within paragraphs using this bright, appealing PDF grammar worksheet.
Activities include SATs-style questions and opportunities for creative writing responses, with eye-catching images as prompts.
This primary resource is divided into five sections:
Understand
Circle the cohesive devices used within the paragraph.
Challenge
Write a paragraph about a recent journey using the words provided to create cohesion.
Test
Add suitable words to sentences given and identify the pronouns used for cohesion.
Explain
Explain how pronouns, prepositions and adverbials are used as cohesive devices
Apply
Write a description of a journey on a passenger ferry, using cohesive devices to link ideas within paragraphs
What are cohesive devices?
Cohesive devices are words used to show how the different parts of a text fit together. They create cohesion.
The following are some examples of cohesive devices:
- determiners
- pronouns
- conjunctions
- adverbs
- ellipsis
National Curriculum English programme of study links (from English Appendix 2): Use devices to build cohesion within a paragraph [for example, then, after, that, this, firstly]