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Develop students' understanding of sentence openers and textual cohesion with this scaffolded resource designed to strengthen paragraph writing, clarity and the logical flow of ideas. Students learn how purposeful sentence openers guide the reader, maintain a clear topic and connect ideas across a paragraph to create cohesive writing.

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This teacher resource includes:

• Three double-sided scaffolded printable worksheets with increasing levels of challenge, progressing from identifying sentence openers and topic connections, to analysing how different sentence beginnings create cohesion, and finally constructing cohesive paragraphs using purposeful and varied sentence openers
• Clear worked examples and guided practice tasks that build confidence through explicit modelling and supported application
• A focus on key concepts, including identifying sentence openers, recognising how they introduce, revisit and develop a topic, using pronouns, noun groups and connectives to maintain cohesion, and varying sentence beginnings to improve clarity, flow and reader engagement
• Answer sheets for every level to support efficient marking and targeted feedback

This resource strengthens students' writing, reading comprehension and text analysis skills while developing their ability to create cohesive paragraphs that guide the reader clearly from one idea to the next.

Format: PDF

Aligned to Australian Curriculum Outcome: 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. (AC9E5LA04)

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