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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: All About Transition Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Types of transition words and how they can be used to make writing more fluid.
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Other

Indiana University of Pennsylvania: Writing Center: Organizational Problems

For Students 9th - 10th
This Indiana University of Pennsylvania Writing Center article provides tips to help students with essay organizational problems. The article suggests that students look at the essay's introduction, thesis, transitions, body paragraphs,...
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Indiana University of Pennsylvania: Writing Center: Structure and Organization

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Indiana University of Pennsylvania Writing Center site provides resources to help students organize the content of their essays. Resources to help students with outlining content and incorporating transition words are provided.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Rhetorical Devices and Transitions

For Students 9th - 10th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will be able to write an essay using effective rhetorical devices and transitions.
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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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Harvard University

Harvard University: Strategies for Essay Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This website provides a series of links to detailed information about each segment of how to write an academic essay from how to read the assignment to the final edits. Use the links to the right. W.9-10.1a claims/intro/org, W.9-10.2a...
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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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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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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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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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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Overcoming a Personified Fear

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students 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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Berkeley County Schools: 2nd and 3rd Grade Writing Folder

For Students K - 1st Standards
This writing packet includes all final product tasks and writing process resources for all 2nd and 3rd grade students. Lists of transition words, homophones, parts of speech, and more are included.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Principles of Composition

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
If you are a teacher OR a student looking for a well-informed website on elements of the writing process, you are in luck! This site from the Capital Community College is very comprehensive and easy-to-navigate. From grammar basics to...
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: General Writing Resources

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This helpful resource details the process of writing, including how to plan, write, and revise. Content also includes the different types or genres of writing, and exercises in grammar and mechanics.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Second Grade Writing Lesson #2/Narrative Prompt

For Teachers 2nd Standards
This lesson engages students in listening to one or more narratives, Then students will engage in the writing process to develop their own personal narrative. Exemplar narratives are provided.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Rhetorical Devices and Transitions (English Ii Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will be able to write an essay using effective rhetorical devices and transitions.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway:revising Expository/procedural Essay:rhetorical Device/transitions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and revising an essay so that it contains appropriate rhetorical devices and transitions.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Concluding Transition Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on the use of concluding transition words; it defines transition words and lists the categories. It explains when and how to use concluding transitions, provides a sample list of them, and offers sentence...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Writing Effective Topic Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on topic sentences using two slideshows. The first defines topic sentences, discusses purpose and placement, and provides a sample thesis statement followed by accompanying topic sentences samples. The second...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Write an Expository And/or Procedural Text (English 6 Writing)

For Students 6th Standards
You will learn how to write an expository/procedural text with a variety of sentence structures, rhetorical devices, transitions, appropriate facts, and details.
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University of Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin: Writing Center: Improving Your Writing Style

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
If you are looking for ways to make your writing clearer and more concise, check out this site. Many helpful hints are given here. Information can be downloaded in PDF format. L.11-12.3a Syntax
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Topic Sentences: Map Your Way to Writing One

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial on writing topic sentences includes 2 videos, 2 slide shows, and an audio clip. The first YouTube video explains the 4 parts of a topic sentence and tells where topic sentences belong. The 2 slide shows focus on the MAP...
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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....
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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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