Connectives and conjunctions The new curriculum emphasises the need to teach children how to improve their writing by using connectives to link sentences. For example:  Put all the rice in a pan. Then add 250 ml of boiling water to the pan. The word ‘Then’ helps connect the two sentences. I came top in the Maths test. However, my English was not so good. Other connectives include later, otherwise, secondly, while, eventually, as a result, in addition and many more. We have just published a great set of pages on using connectives which can be found at: Grammar : Conjunctions and prepositions By Years 5/6 children will know and understand that conjunctions are joining words but they should also be introduced to the co-ordinating and subordinating conjunctions and the differences between them. Co-ordinating conjunctions join two parts (or clauses) which are independent of each other and you want to give equal emphasis to both; they both have similar importance. The main co-ordinating conjunctions are: and     but    or    nor     yet     so       for A subordinate conjunction joins two parts of the sentence (two clauses) where one part is dependent on the other, main, clause. Subordinate conjunctions are words such as: if, while and when. Go to conjunction worksheets