This fun and engaging game encourages students to make their writing more precise, more interesting and more cohesive! Students are required to work their way around the gameboard and select sentence starter cards. Once selected, students use the Cool Connectives Reference Sheet to select a text connective and complete the sentence. The first player to complete 4 sentences using different text connectives for each, wins!
An excellent fast finisher or literacy rotation activity for any middle year's classroom.
Uses an increasing range of skills, strategies and knowledge to fluently read, view and comprehend a range of texts on increasingly challenging topics in different media and technologies
Reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
Identify how text connectives including temporal and conditional words, and topic word associations are used to sequence and connect ideas
Understand how texts are made cohesive through the use of linking devices including pronoun reference and text connectives
Understand how texts are made cohesive through the use of linking devices including pronoun reference and text connectives