Cohesion
Students need to connect ideas logically in order to write and speak in more complex and intricate ways. Connecting ideas in a succinct manner greatly contributes to text readability, with cohesion being one of the main qualities that give a written or spoken text unity and purpose.
Cohesion is achieved through the use of linguistic devices, which include: conjunctions, substitutions, connectives and a variety of referring words and lexical devices (such as repetition of words), collocations and lexical groups.
View and print types of logic, conjunctions and text connectives (PDF 88.42 KB)
Teaching strategies for cohesion
Stage 1 – identifying and using conjunctions
Stage 2 – referring words – noun-pronoun chains
Stage 3 – identifying and using a range of conjunctions
Stage 4 – identifying and using referring words, substitutions and word associations
Stage 4 – identifying and using referring words – collocations, word sets, synonyms and antonyms
