Give the reader a route
Give the reader a route
AO5 asks you to organise information and ideas, using structural and grammatical features to make a text coherent and cohesive. Coherence means the ideas make sense in their chosen order; cohesion means the links between sentences and paragraphs help the reader follow them.
Step-by-step lessons on Edexcel GCSE English Language 4.1.7 AO5: organise ideas for coherence and cohesion. Each one builds up to exam-style questions. Start with the non-fiction reading and comparison skills before moving on to extended writing, since Component 2 carries the larger 60% weighting and technical accuracy in spelling, punctuation and grammar is assessed throughout.