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Worksheet
Curated OER

Compare and Contrast

For Students 6th - 7th
Practice comparing and contrasting with this straightforward worksheet. Young writers compose several different compare and contrast paragraphs about several topics (transportation, sports, relatives, subject areas, a dog and cat). The...
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Handout
The Write Place

Literacy Education Online

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Literacy Education Online (or LEO) is a great place to start if you need help with your writing. The homepage is organized around kinds of problems or questions you might have concerning your writing. Find your problem, click on the...
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Revise Your Writing

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn to revise your writing for clarity. You will begin by reviewing some major considerations for revision: genre, purpose, and audience. You will...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Overcoming a Personified Fear

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Learners read There's a Nightmare in My Closet by Mercer Mayer as they learn about writing transitions and examine the theme of overcoming their fears. Then they write original stories of their own about a fear and how they will overcome...
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Handout
University of Richmond

University of Richmond: Transitional Words and Phrases

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site has a list of transitional words and phrases organized by their function in a sentence or paragraph. Because they are organized under such headings as "providing an example" and "showing conclusions," it is easy to find an...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Using Transitional Expressions [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Practice tying your sentences and ideas together with this worksheet on transitional expressions. W.9-10.1c cohesion/clarity/reason
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Transition Signals

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
A 15-part learning module on transitions, the different types, and how to use them effectively in writing, with links to videos, websites, texts, slides, images, and a quiz.
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Handout
Other

Indiana University of Pennsylvania: Writing Center: Using Transitions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Indiana University of Pennsylvania Writing Center resource provides tips to ensure organizational flow content.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Emphatic Transition Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A six-slide presentation introducing emphatic transition words and discusses their purpose and their use.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Transitioning Topics Effectively

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A seven-slide presentation that reviews transitions and discusses how to use them to move from one idea to the next.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Transition Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Eight slides introducing different types of transition words including similarity, contrast, addition, illustration, and cause and effect words.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Transition Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A variety of presentation formats including notes, a PowerPoint presentation, exercises, a game, and a video [1:46] explaining transition words and their function as well as providing examples of transition words to be used for specific...
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Additive Transition Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Six slides explaining how to use additive transition words to connect, or add, one idea to another to increase fluency. Examples are provided in a chart and within various types of sentences.
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Handout
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Transitions

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on transitions including their importance in a speech, types of transitions, how to use transitions, internal previews, and internal summaries.
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Handout
University of Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin: Using Transitions: Transitional Words and Phrases

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Tables of words that show different types of sentence transitions. W.9-10.1c cohesion/clarity/reason, W.9-10.2c cohesion/clarity/transitions. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.4, W.11-12.1c Transitions/Cohesion, W.11-12.2c Transition/Cohesion....