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

How Bloomi helps with this

This is a readiness-year topic that builds towards the next NAPLAN year. Bloomi practises it as curriculum mastery, never test drilling.

What this looks like in the classroom

• recognising how authors construct texts that are cohesive and coherent using pronouns that link to something previously mentioned and determiners; for example, “this”, “that”, “these” and “those”, to identify things
• recognising how authors use text connectives to create links between sentences; for example, “however”, “therefore”, “nevertheless” and “in addition”
• recognising how text connectives link sections of a text, providing sequences through time; for example, “firstly”, “then”, “next” and “finally”