Curated OER
Compare and Contrast
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...
The Write Place
Literacy Education Online
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...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Revise Your Writing
[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...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Overcoming a Personified Fear
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...
University of Richmond
University of Richmond: Transitional Words and Phrases
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...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Using Transitional Expressions [Pdf]
Practice tying your sentences and ideas together with this worksheet on transitional expressions. W.9-10.1c cohesion/clarity/reason
TES Global
Blendspace: Transition Signals
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.
Other
Indiana University of Pennsylvania: Writing Center: Using Transitions
This Indiana University of Pennsylvania Writing Center resource provides tips to ensure organizational flow content.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Emphatic Transition Words
A six-slide presentation introducing emphatic transition words and discusses their purpose and their use.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Transitioning Topics Effectively
A seven-slide presentation that reviews transitions and discusses how to use them to move from one idea to the next.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Transition Words
Eight slides introducing different types of transition words including similarity, contrast, addition, illustration, and cause and effect words.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Transition Words
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...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Additive Transition Words
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.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Transitions
This lesson focuses on transitions including their importance in a speech, types of transitions, how to use transitions, internal previews, and internal summaries.
University of Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin: Using Transitions: Transitional Words and Phrases
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....