Exploring cohesive devices in non-chronological reports
I can identify cohesive devices that are used in a non-chronological report about a shark.
Exploring cohesive devices in non-chronological reports
I can identify cohesive devices that are used in a non-chronological report about a shark.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- Text cohesion refers to how a text flows together to maintain the interest of the reader.
- We can improve text cohesion using cohesive devices that connect information within and between sentences.
- Compound and complex sentences can be used to join linked information in one sentence.
- Fronted adverbials can be used to show links between information in adjacent sentences.
- There are different types of complex sentence and fronted adverbials, which serve different purposes.
Common misconception
Pupils may have difficulty recognising that there are different types of complex sentence.
Different types of complex sentence contain different types of subordinate clause, each starting with a different type of word.
Keywords
Text cohesion - how a text flows to maintain the interest of the reader and achieve text purpose
Compound sentence - a sentence formed of two main clauses and a co-ordinating conjunction
Complex sentence - a sentence formed of at least one main clause and a subordinate clause
Fronted adverbial - a sentence starter followed by a comma
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