Cohesion and Transitions Across Writing
Use varied transitions, cohesive devices, and paragraph-linking strategies to create coherence across a whole piece of writing — including temporal transitions, causal connectives, and techniques for signalling shifts in argument, time, or setting
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Plan paragraph links across a short whole text, distinguish logical relationships, and signal a shift of time or place in narrative.
Use Paragraph Cohesion first. Ask the learner to explain why 'The latch jammed. As a result, the lid stayed shut' is a causal link and why 'The lid was blue. As a result, it stayed shut' is not supported. If needed, reteach cause versus unrelated description. Ask what a paragraph is about before adding a connector. The learner should be able to keep a noun reference clear across two paragraphs.
Check readiness directly. Prerequisite availability is not attainment.
Use paper and a pencil. All required texts, notes and planning fields are on the stage sheets. Start with the readiness check. Read Show, then work on Guided. Use a separate sheet for Try. There is no time or word-count target. Read the active sheet on screen and write on plain paper. No printer, cutting, purchase or internet is needed. An adult may read instructions or passages without interpreting them. Record read-aloud help, prompts and scribing. Oral answers can show reasoning; dictation and adult scribing do not show independent written composition or handwriting. Split the lesson or pause as needed. Adult-only: keep keys and scripts away from learner pages. Share only the current Show model. Put Show and Guided work aside before Try. Keep the fresh passage or fact notes available in Try; text analysis is not a memory test. Give no target answers, phrases or interpretations during the first attempt. If help is needed, give it and record the work as supported. Use the supplied fiction. No real names, family stories, private experiences, uploads or public sharing are needed. No physical performance is required.
Record the actual response and assistance. These tasks do not establish mastery.
Use the complete materials on screen or print only the current sheet. Keep adult guidance out of learner view. Retain an earlier model only when the current step supplies it as context.
Teaching limits and safe use
These are finite task opportunities, not proof of mastery. Record what was attempted and what support was used.
The club situations and notes are fictional. No research or real-world results are asserted. This lesson does not require a long essay or every named connector in one text.
Age bands do not establish readiness. Check the learner’s response before continuing.
Record the actual response and assistance. These tasks do not establish mastery.
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Plan paragraph links across a short whole text, distinguish logical relationships, and signal a shift of time or place in narrative.
Plan paragraph links across a short whole text, distinguish logical relationships, and signal a shift of time or place in narrative.
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Check understanding
- Use a range of causal and logical connectives (consequently, nevertheless, as a result) appropriately across a discursive essay
- Signal a shift in time or setting within a narrative using a transitional phrase or paragraph break
- Link paragraphs using a cohesive device such as a topic sentence that refers back to the previous paragraph
“When your child writes several paragraphs, do they use linking phrases like "however," "as a result," or "on the other hand" to connect ideas smoothly between sections?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Procedural
- Subject
- English
- Domain
- Writing Composition
- Age range
- Ages 11–14
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