What students learn in AC9E4LA04
This unit helps students build a clear, usable understanding of How text connectives including temporal and conditional words, and topic.... The goal is not to memorise one answer pattern. Students should be able to explain the idea, recognise it in a new example and apply it in a short practice or worksheet task.
- Start with the main idea: identify how text connectives including temporal and conditional words, and topic word associations are used to sequence and connect ideas.
- Use concrete examples, pictures, oral explanation and short written responses before moving to independent practice.
- 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”
- Finish with mixed questions so students must choose the correct strategy rather than copy the last example.
Curriculum coverage and elaborations
The content description and elaborations below show the curriculum ideas taught in this unit. Items marked as teaching context support lesson planning but may not appear in the initial eight-question activity.
- Content description: identify how text connectives including temporal and conditional words, and topic word associations are used to sequence and connect ideas
- E1: 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
- E2: recognising how authors use text connectives to create links between sentences; for example, “however”, “therefore”, “nevertheless” and “in addition”
- E3: recognising how text connectives link sections of a text, providing sequences through time; for example, “firstly”, “then”, “next” and “finally”
How to use this unit
Read the topic guide, use the teacher slide for instruction, then complete the Worksheet, Practice and Test. These three activities use the same eight-question unit bank.
Teacher resource
AC9E4LA04 teacher slide
Use this one-page PDF to introduce the key idea, vocabulary and teaching sequence before students begin the activities.
Open teacher slide (PDF)Common mistakes to watch for
- Answering from memory without using clues from the text, sentence or image.
- Knowing the idea orally but not transferring it into reading, writing or speaking.
- Missing punctuation, word order or vocabulary clues that change meaning.
International curriculum mapping
This table gives closest-topic mapping for search and planning. The Australian Curriculum code is exact; overseas entries are broad equivalents because each jurisdiction structures outcomes differently.
| Region | Curriculum | Closest mapping |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | Australian Curriculum v9.0 | AC9E4LA04 — identify how text connectives including temporal and conditional words, and topic word associations are used to sequence and connect ideas |
| Victoria | Victorian Curriculum F-10 | Year 4 English: closest match in Text structure and organisation. Use this page as a VIC-aligned practice and worksheet reference. |
| NSW | NSW Curriculum | Stage 2 English: closest content focus for How text connectives including temporal and conditional words, and topic... and related outcomes. |
| United States | Common Core / NGSS | Grade 4 Common Core Mathematics/ELA closest topic match for How text connectives including temporal and conditional words, and topic.... |
| England / UK | National Curriculum | Key Stage 2 / Year 4: closest programme-of-study match for How text connectives including temporal and conditional words, and topic.... |
| Canada | Provincial and territory curricula | Grade 4 closest topic match. Canada varies by province, so use this as a broad Ontario/BC-style learning outcome reference. |
| New Zealand | New Zealand Curriculum | Level 2 English: closest achievement-objective topic for How text connectives including temporal and conditional words, and topic.... |
| India | NCERT / CBSE | Class 4 closest NCERT/CBSE topic match for How text connectives including temporal and conditional words, and topic.... |