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Understand that cohesive links can be made in texts by omitting or replacing words (ACELA1520)

Elaborations
  • noting how a general word is often used for a more specific word already mentioned, for example ‘Look at those apples. Can I have one?
  • recognising how cohesion can be developed through repeating key words or by using synonyms or antonyms
  • observing how relationships between concepts can be represented visually through similarity, contrast, juxtaposition, repetition, class-subclass diagrams, part-whole diagrams, cause-and-effect figures, visual continuities and discontinuities
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
ScOT terms

Text connectives

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