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Do your students know that sentences can be stretched out using prepositional phrases? When this happens, sentences have a greater depth of meaning!

Sentence Stretching

Children will read simple pasta directions, then select the correct transition words from the choices shown.

Adding Transition Words

Help your students solidify their use of transition words with this cute version of the classic ugly duckling story. By helping to fill in the missing transition words throughout the narrative, students will flex their sequencing and organization skills.

Narrative Transition Words & Phrases

Writing personal narratives requires students to be able to stretch out small moments into beginnings, middles, and ends. Help students practice this skill by thinking how they could stretch out a story of a birthday.

Stretching Out Small Moments: Birthdays

Writing personal narratives requires students to be able to stretch out small moments into beginnings, middles, and ends. Help your young writers practice this skill by thinking how they could stretch out a story about something they’ve done in the summer

Stretching Out Small Moments: Summer Stories

Writing personal narratives requires students to be able to stretch out small moments into beginnings, middles, and ends. Help your young writers practice this skill by thinking how they could stretch out a story about something related to school.

Stretching Out Small Moments: School Stories

Writing personal narratives requires students to be able to stretch out small moments into beginnings, middles, and ends. Help your budding writer practice this skill by thinking how they could stretch out a story related to friends.

Stretching Out Small Moments: Friend Stories

Upper grade students practice using transitions to craft clear and cohesive writing.

Transition Words & Phrases: Task Cards

Use this resource with your students to practice making connections between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will identify the relationships between words and their meanings.

Working with Analogies

Use this worksheet to practice sequencing a character’s feelings using transition words.

Character Changes Order

Children add more transition words to their sequencing arsenal in this word-sorting worksheet.

Time Transition Word Sort

Write concise, engaging sentences and eliminate repetitive words with this helpful handout!

Better Together: Introduction to Combining Sentences

Upper grade students will practice using transition words to craft clear and cohesive writing.

Practice Using Transitions #1

Practice Using Transitions #2

Students will use real nonfiction texts to search for transition words and then consider how they are used to connect ideas.

Transition Word Hunt

Students can practice finding transition words using a sample text about the popularity of soccer that’s chock full of transitions.

America's Favorite Sport Is Transitioning from Baseball and Football to Soccer

Help your students learn how to move smoothly between ideas and paragraphs using transition words and phrases. Young writers will use real texts as mentors as they study how authors use words to transition between ideas and support their claims. As a result, they will have a word bank to use in their own writing. 

Transition Word Hunter

Let's get silly! Use this worksheet to help your students practice counting words and improving their handwriting while writing out these silly sentences.

Write It Again!

Help students practice their handwriting while rewriting these sentences as neatly as possible. Students will also get to practice counting the number of words in each sentence.

Careful Counting, Careful Writing

Beginning readers track when they read by touching each word. In this worksheet, students will touch each word they read then count the total words in each sentence.

Touching Each Word

Help students practice their handwriting while writing these sentences as neat as can be. Students will also get a chance to practice counting the number of words in each sentence.

The Best Sentences That Ever Were

Invite your students to jog their memories, recall events, and write about what happened to them this morning. This worksheet challenges students to fill the entire page with words.

It Happened to Me

Students become word artists as they use ordinary pictures to practice creating detailed descriptions. This technique helps your class learn how to paint a picture with words.

Paint a Word Picture

Kindergarteners will write about their favorite foods with this journal worksheet. This activity will develop your students' writing and brainstorming skills while challenging them to fill up the entire page with words!

My Favorite Food Journal Page

Use this resource with your students to practice identifying relationships between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will notice synonym relationships.

Working with Analogies 2

Create conversations about character changes! Use this lesson plan as a stand-alone lesson for practicing sequencing words in evidenced-based claims about a character, or before the Characters Change Just Like We Do lesson.

Evidence of Character Changes

Help your ELs learn how to identify the main idea and supporting details in a nonfiction text by using nouns and pronouns as guide words. It can be a stand-alone lesson or used as support to the lesson Explorer Letters.

Main Idea and Supporting Details

Could there be a pot of gold waiting for you at the end of that rainbow? Or is it hiding elsewhere? In this St. Patrick's Day lesson plan, students will write about what they would do if they found a pot of gold.

St. Patrick's Day Writing: If I Found a Pot of Gold...

Spellers take their skills to the stratosphere with this fun practice worksheet.

Spelling List: Space Exploration

Use this lesson to help your ELs understand main idea and supporting details. They'll analyze non-fiction word, sentence, and paragraph structures. It can be a stand-alone lesson or a support lesson to the In Search of Main Ideas lesson.

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