Cohesion in Texts Year 5 Unit

Cohesion in Texts helps Year 5 students understand how writers connect ideas and guide readers through a text. Students investigate sentence beginnings, connectives, pronouns, determiners, adverbials and repeated key ideas, then apply these choices to strengthen flow and clarity.

The unit supports explicit whole-class teaching, guided practice, independent work, revision and assessment. It combines an editable PowerPoint presentation and quiz with an 18-page printable unit plan containing a colour display, student reference, sorting activity, board game, five worksheets, matching answers, assessment and a five-level rubric.

What's Included

• Editable 17-slide Cohesion in Texts PowerPoint presentation
• Editable 22-slide PowerPoint quiz with 10 question-and-answer pairs
• 18-page unit plan PDF
• Cohesion in Texts classroom display
• Cohesive Devices Toolkit student reference
• Connective Purpose Sort activity
• Cohesion Trail board game
• Sentence Beginnings That Signal Ideas worksheet and answer
• Connective Choices worksheet and answer
• Pronoun and Determiner Links worksheet and answer
• Repair the Paragraph worksheet and suggested answer
• Cohesion Across Text Types worksheet and answer
• Cohesion in Texts Check-In assessment and answer
• Five-level Cohesion in Texts rubric

Learning Focus

• Explain how cohesion helps readers follow meaning.
• Use sentence beginnings to signal ideas and text structure.
• Select connectives for different purposes.
• Track pronoun and determiner references.
• Use adverbials and repeated key ideas effectively.
• Repair repetition and weak links within paragraphs.
• Compare cohesive choices across persuasive, informative and imaginative texts.

Classroom Use

Use the presentation to introduce and model cohesive devices, then select the display, reference, sorting activity, board game and worksheets for guided or independent practice. The quiz can be used for formative checking. The Cohesion in Texts Check-In and five-level rubric support end-of-unit assessment and reporting.

Formats, Page Counts and Answers

Includes printable PDF and editable Microsoft PowerPoint PPTX files. The unit plan contains 18 pages, the presentation has 17 slides and the quiz has 22 slides. Five worksheet answer pages and one assessment answer page are included. The suggested teaching duration is approximately one to two weeks and can be adapted to class needs.

Digital Product and Licence

This is a digital product; no physical item will be shipped. The purchaser may print and display the resource for their own classroom or household. The files may not be resold, redistributed, shared publicly or uploaded to an open website or shared resource library.