Linking words help connect ideas and organize the content of a text.

Pay attention to the different linking words in the text.

Hint

In a text, there are words that help organize the content. They are called linking words.
When I read:

  • I can find linking words.
  • I can re-read the sentences in which these words appear.
  • I can determine the type of connection these words establish between ideas such as time, place, order, consequence, etc.

 

For each of the following questions, choose the linking words that mean the same thing.

It’s not easy to say exactly because in the Far North past the 55th parallel, the sun stays up six months a year…and stays down for the other six months.

But who wants to hear a probable story?

Then he felt a wet tongue and smelled strong fishy breath.

In the following text, find the linking words, in the groups of underlined words, that express a sense of time. Click to say if the words express a sense of time (True) or not (False).

That morning…or maybe it was night? It’s not easy to say exactly because in the Far North past the 55th parallel, the sun stays up six months a year…and stays down for the other six months. Whether it was day or night changes nothing about my story, which is improbable anyway.

the seal the old sculptor serpentine stones

My grandfather always cut them in the summer and traded them in the winter for seal fat or dried meat.

For a few seconds, it jiggled around, performing twitchy, graceful steps… 1-2, cha-cha-cha, and my grandfather lost consciousness again…

It is said that on that day, the old sculptor of the village went to join the world of spirits and that it was he who appeared to my grandfather in the form of a seal, to pass on his talent to him.