Explore cohesive devices with this engaging teaching slide deck designed to help primary students understand and use them confidently in their writing.
Twelve Cohesive Devices to Explore
Cohesive devices are an integral part of writing. They are the words or phrases that link ideas together so that writing makes sense and flows smoothly. Think of cohesive devices as a type of magical glue…. Without them, textual flow just falls apart!
If you’re looking to brush up your students’ knowledge on the most common cohesive devices and their functions, this teaching slide deck is for you! This comprehensive 26-slide presentation has been crafted by one of our expert teachers to help you explore 12 of the most common cohesive devices with your students. The slideshow provides a definition of each device, some examples of the device, and a sentence showing the device in use.
The slideshow also includes two review activities and a revision quiz to help you see how well your students have grasped the concept.
Read on to learn more about this cohesive devices slide deck!
A Comprehensive Cohesive Device Lesson for Your Students
This slide deck makes an excellent starting point when it comes to teaching your students about how cohesive devices can be used in and across sentences to make writing flow more smoothly. Due to the amount of information contained in the presentation, we recommend covering the content over several lessons.
The cohesive devices included in this presentation are:
- Coordinating conjunctions
- Subordinating conjunctions
- Pronouns
- Synonyms
- Repeated words
- Illustrating words
- Time connectives
- Comparative words
- Cause and effect words
- Adding words
- Exception words
- Emphasising words
Whether you’re introducing this topic for the first time or reinforcing previous learning, this resource will build your students’ confidence in using cohesive devices in their own writing.
Download to Teach Cohesion and Cohesive Devices
This slideshow downloads as either a Microsoft PowerPoint or Google Slides presentation. Use the dropdown menu on the Download button to access your preferred version. (Note: You will be prompted to make a copy of the Google Slides presentation before accessing it.)
Project the resource onto your screen and work through the slides as a class for a paperless lesson on text cohesion.
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