Cohesion across Paragraphs - Fiction Presentation

A comprehensive resource titled "Cohesion across Paragraphs - Fiction" has been designed for Year 5 students to enhance their understanding of creating cohesion in narrative writing. This educational material, presented in PowerPoint format, is a collection of activities and instructions to support teachers in tailoring the content to their class's needs. The resource is structured to be used in sections, each containing whole-class input, group and paired activities, and independent tasks. Teachers are encouraged to adjust the level of support based on their discretion to best suit their students' learning requirements.

The content of the resource delves into the concept of cohesion, which is crucial for ensuring that a text's paragraphs and overall meaning are coherent and connected. Students are taught about various cohesive devices such as pronouns, relative clauses, adverbials, and conjunctions, which help to avoid repetition and add clarity to the narrative. The classic tale of Goldilocks and the Three Bears is used as a case study to explore story structure and how cohesive devices can be strategically employed. The resource also covers different narrative structures like parallel narratives, stories within a story, time slip narratives, and non-linear chronologies, each requiring specific cohesive devices to effectively tell the story. Additional activities suggest using a range of literature, from picture books to shorter novels, to practice mapping out story sequences and identifying cohesive devices within texts.