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Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Transitions and Transitional Devices

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Grammarly Handbook resource provides information about how to use transition words and transitional devices to connect sentences, paragraphs, and sections in an essay.
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Other

Troubleshooting Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site presents in chart form a list of common sentence problems with possible solutions offered. A couple additional links are provided for further information.
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Other

Sjrc Writing Center: Parallel Structure Lesson

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This site explains the topic of parallel structure. Numerous examples of sentences with parallel structure are provided.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Untangle Grammatical Structures

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page explains the need to revise sentences with unclear or mixed constructions and provides examples.
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Handout
University of Richmond

University of Richmond: Using Transitions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A discussion of how to use transitions for effective writing. W.9-10.2c cohesion/clarity/trans, W.11-12.1c Transitions/Cohesion, W.11-12.2c Transition/Cohesion CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.2.c
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Handout
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Writing Transitions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Discusses how to transition effectively between paragraphs. Includes examples and how they can be revised to connect the ideas better. The second page of the resource has lists of transitional words and phrases categorized by how they...
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Unit Plan
E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Patterns of Organization: Problem and Solution

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This learning module provides an explanation of the problem and solution text structure. An explanaton of the problem and solution text structure is provided, and comparisons to the cause and effect text structure are demonstrated in a...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Illustrative Transition Words: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson goes over illustration transition words and how they are used. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Illustrative Transition Words." [2:20]
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Article
Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: How to Write Better Essays: 5 Concepts You Must Master

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This blog article discusses essay writing including thesis development, strong form, style, conventions, and support and references.
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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Connecting Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Grammarly Handbook resource provides ways to connect sentences using transition words and punctuation (colons and semi-colons). Includes a list of transitional words and their uses, and a discussion of how punctuation is used to...
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Paper Writing: Transitions and Topic Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on transitions including transitional devices, lists of common transition words and phrases, transitions between paragraphs with examples, and separate lists of transition words for descriptive, narrative, and...
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Transition Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson goes over how to compose sentences that transition between paragraphs. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.
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Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Parallel Form

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from the Capital Community College defines the term and gives many examples of faulty parallelism and the corrected version of sentences. Includes links to a couple of quizzes at the bottom of the page. "Most of the...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: The Five Transition Adventure Planner

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students will use transition words and phrases to shift from one idea to another within a story.
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Handout
University of Ottawa (Canada)

University of Ottawa: Writing Paragraphs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from the University of Ottawa provides a wonderfully designed website that not only gives you exhaustive information on paragraph writing. Students will engage in starting with outlines, writing topic sentences, dividing their...
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Handout
Indiana University

Indiana University: Writing Services: Incorporating Evidence Into Your Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This handout explores how to effectively incorporate evidence to support your claims into your paper. It provides weak and strong examples to show effective ways to incorporate evidence clearly and cohesively. W.9-10.1c...
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Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Transitions Between Ideas

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial teaches writing students how to share convincing in well-written sentences that are connected from one to the other--that is, they exhibit transition. W.9-10.1c cohesion/clarity/reason, W.9-10.2c cohesion/clarity/trans
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Concluding Transition Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A screencast lesson [2 mins, 32 secs] introducing transition words used to conclude an idea and providing examples of how to use such transitions in concluding sentences. W.11-12.1c Transitions/Cohesion CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.2.c
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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Main Ideas and Supporting Ideas

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An explanation and examples of main ideas and supporting details.
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Other

Instruct Uwo: Module 6 Sentence Structure and Style

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site discusses several characteristics of writing: coordination, subordination, parallelism, and sentence variety. Each section includes a brief discussion with examples. There are also quizzes and additional links for each section.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Effective Introduction and Conclusion Sentence Structure Variety

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Write effective introductions and conclusions with a controlling idea or thesis, using a variety of sentence patterns.
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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Putting It Together: Beyond the Five Paragraph Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on strategies for moving essay writing beyond the five-paragraph essay structure to one whose structure is determined by the content. W.11-12.4 Clear/Coherent Writing
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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Writing Skills: Key Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on effective paragraph construction especially topic sentences.
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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Writing Skills: Paragraph Transitions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on transitioning between paragraphs including when to begin a new paragraph and transitions for different purposes.