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....
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Transition Words
This tutorial focuses on transition words. In text it defines transition words and how they improve writing; in PDF it provides a list of transition words and phrases by category with examples. Using a PowerPoint presentation, it...
University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina: Writing Transitions
This University of North Carolina writing tutorial gives examples and how to use transitions and stresses the importance of organization. W.9-10.1c cohesion/clarity/reason, W.9-10.2c cohesion/clarity/trans, W.11-12.1c...
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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
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Writing the Ged Essay Using Transitional Words
A critical part of the writing process is using transitional words and phrases to let the reader know when a change is coming. Learn more about how to use transitions and acquaint yourself with examples of transitional words.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: All About Transition Words
Types of transition words and how they can be used to make writing more fluid.
University of Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin: Writing Center: Using Semicolons
A writing tutorial for the correct use of semicolons to link two independent clauses, clauses with commas, clauses connected by conjunctive adverbs or transitional phrases, and to link lists where the items contain commas. Examples and...
Other
Indiana University of Pennsylvania: Writing Center: Using Transitions
This Indiana University of Pennsylvania Writing Center resource provides tips to ensure organizational flow content.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Sentence Structures, Rhetorical Devices, & Transitions
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] The most effective expository and procedural texts contain rhetorical devices, transitional words and phrases, and a variety of sentence structures. Students will learn some...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Editing for Coherence and Transition
In this lesson, students will learn how to edit sentences so they move seamlessly from one to another within a paragraph; however, they can use the same methods to ensure that paragraphs move seamlessly from one to another in an entire...
Other
English Language: Smart Words: Transitional Words and Phrases
Lists of transitional words or phrases broken into categories based on their purposes. Can be downloaded in PDF format. There is also a short discussion of their important role in essay writing. W.11-12.2c Transition/Cohesion
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Paper Writing: Transitions and Topic Sentences
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...
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...
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.
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: 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.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Illustrative Transition Words: Lesson 1
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]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Transition Words
Eight slides introducing different types of transition words including similarity, contrast, addition, illustration, and cause and effect words.
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...
Education.com
Education.com: W.4.2.d Worksheets: Use Precise Language and Vocabulary
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 4 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard W.4.2.D: Use precise language and domain specific vocabulary to inform about or...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: W.4.3c: Use a Variety of Transitional Words and Phrases
Links to 4 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.4.3c: Use a variety of transitional words and phrases to manage the sequence of events.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Concluding Transition Words
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
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Five Transition Adventure Planner
In this lesson, students will use transition words and phrases to shift from one idea to another within a story.