Support your students in developing cohesive sentence writing skills with our Connectives Crossing Worksheet! This engaging language resource is designed to help students practise using a variety of connectives to join clauses, improving their sentence fluency and expanding their vocabulary. The maze-style layout adds an element of fun and challenge as students navigate their way through sentence choices using the most appropriate connective.

As students work their way through the Connectives Crossing, they will read incomplete sentences and choose the correct connective to complete each one. Each choice leads them to a new box in the maze, helping to reinforce an understanding of how different connectives change meaning and structure. This activity provides excellent practise in recognising cause and effect, sequencing, contrast, and addition through language.

Perfect for independent work, literacy rotations, or homework practise, this worksheet supports both comprehension and grammar development. It's also an ideal follow-up activity after explicit teaching of conjunctions and sentence structure. Students are encouraged to read aloud, test their choices, and reflect on how the use of different connectives affects tone and clarity. Whether used individually or in pairs, this activity will boost students’ confidence in using varied sentence starters and transitions.

Key Learning Outcomes:

• ✅ Recognise and apply a variety of connectives in context
• ✅ Improve sentence fluency and grammatical accuracy
• ✅ Strengthen understanding of how clauses are linked to form complex ideas
• ✅ Practise selecting connectives that show sequence, contrast, cause or addition

What’s Included:

• 1 Connectives Crossing worksheet (maze-style layout)
• Answer sheet for teacher or peer marking

Materials Needed:

• Printed worksheet (A4 preferred)
• Pencil or highlighter for tracing the path
• Optional scaffold: connective word bank or display anchor chart

How to Use:

1. Start at the traffic lights and read the first sentence prompt.
2. Choose the connective that best completes the sentence from the options provided.
3. Follow the arrow from the correct connective to the next sentence prompt.
4. Continue through the maze, selecting appropriate connectives until reaching the end.

Ideas for Classroom Use:

• 💡 Use during literacy rotations as a grammar-focused station activity
• 💡 Assign as homework to reinforce classroom learning of connectives
• 💡 Pair students for collaborative reasoning and discussion around their choices
• 💡 Integrate into a lesson on compound and complex sentences

Top Teacher Tips:

• 💛 Encourage students to read sentences aloud to check for flow and meaning
• 💛 Provide examples of different types of connectives before beginning
• 💛 Extend students by challenging them to rewrite sentences using alternate connectives
• 💛 Use colour coding to identify sentence parts and clause relationships

The Connectives Crossing Worksheet makes grammar practice exciting and purposeful. Through active sentence construction and decision-making, students become more confident and articulate writers and speakers.