AC9E5LA04 • Year 5 English
Paragraph Cohesion and Reference (AC9E5LA04)
understand how texts can be made cohesive by using the starting point of a sentence or paragraph to give prominence to the message and to guide the reader through the text
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Unit focus
- Students organise paragraphs around controlled ideas, use topic and elaboration sentences, maintain clear reference chains and select connectives that express logical relationships across sentences and paragraphs.
- Use this routine: Notice → Analyse → Interpret → Apply → Create → Review.
- Watch for every sentence becomes a new paragraph: Group related development around one focus.