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Cool Cohesion

Cool Cohesion
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Description

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.
 

Suitable for
  • Fast Finishers
  • Relief Teachers
Lesson Structure
  • Rotations / Group Work
Curriculum Codes

EN2-4A old

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

EN2-RECOM-01 new

Reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension

AC9E4LA04 9

Identify how text connectives including temporal and conditional words, and topic word associations are used to sequence and connect ideas

ACELA1491 8.4

Understand how texts are made cohesive through the use of linking devices including pronoun reference and text connectives

VCELA290

Understand how texts are made cohesive through the use of linking devices including pronoun reference and text connectives

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