Year 5 Spellings - Connectives

Connectives are important tools for structuring your essays. You can use them in all your writing (including History, Geography, Science, Music etc.). These are simple connectives:

firstly,

secondly,

thirdly,

my first point is to suggest...,

my second point is....,

finally,

in conclusion

These connectives can be used to pull your arguments together:

consequentially,
therefore,
in such a way,
as we have seen,
similarly,
an example of this is when...
in the light of this evidence, it could be suggested...
a key point to draw from this is...

Now for the clever-clogs part. Use these connectives to creates contrasts and suggest other points-of-view (counter-arguments):

in contrast,
however,
critics of this plan have argued...
opponents to this viewpoint say...
nevertheless,
although

Don't forget that you are performing your 'bracket rap' next Tuesday.