Looking for a Time Connectives Worksheet Pack?

How many teachers out there have read a text like this? “I went to the park. I played on the swings. I ate lunch. I went home.” Sound familiar? The ideas are there, but the flow is significantly lacking. That’s where text connectives come into their own!

Time connectives like first, then, after, meanwhile and finally help students sequence events logically and create writing that flows. They transform choppy, detached sentences (like the example above) into cohesive narratives.

This time connectives worksheet pack has been designed by the Teach Starter team to support your students in identifying and using temporal words and phrases. The pack features nine unique worksheets that progressively build understanding. Activities start with simple single-sentence exercises and advance through short paragraphs to full passages.

Some of the activities you will find in this time connectives worksheet pack include:

• Cloze passages
• Joining sentences using connectives
• Identifying connectives in context
• Uplevelling texts using connectives
• And many more!

This time connectives worksheet pack downloads as an easy-print PDF or an editable Google Slides file. Answers are included in both file options.

Whether you’re working with a whole class, running literacy rotations or supporting individuals who need extra practice, these worksheets are your go-to time connectives resource!

Differentiation Made Easy with These Time Connectives Worksheets with Answers

These comprehensive time connectives worksheets have been designed with differentiation in mind! Here are some ideas as to how you can use this resource to meet the diverse needs of your learners: 

• Assign different worksheets – Distribute easier worksheets, such as simpler cloze tasks, to emerging writers, and more difficult ones, such as those involving more detailed texts, to more confident students.
• Provide worksheet choices – Give students some autonomy by allowing them to select a worksheet or collection of worksheets that matches their readiness to engage with particular concepts.
• Worksheets for gradual release – Complete the least complex worksheets together as a class during initial teaching of the concept, then release the more complex ones later for independent practice

Download This Time Connectives Worksheet PDF

This time connectives worksheet PDF downloads instantly and requires zero prep time. Click the Download button for immediate access to the quick-print PDF or the editable Google Slides file. Please note that you will need to make a copy of the Google Slides file to your computer before accessing it.

As this resource contains answer sheets, we recommend printing one copy of the entire file. Then, remove the answer sheets and make photocopies of the worksheets as required.

This resource was created by Kaylyn Chupp, a teacher and a Teach Starter collaborator.

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