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2nd - 8th Grade Transition Words Resources

Use this reference sheet to encourage students to use a variety&nbsp;of transition words in their writing to signal the different relationships&nbsp;between ideas.

Transition Words Reference

In this language and vocabulary worksheet, learners will read two short passages and choose the transition words that best connect the ideas and sentences.

Transition Words in Argument Writing

In this middle school grammar worksheet, learners will read short narrative passages and choose the transitions that best connect the ideas and sentences.

Transition Words in Narrative Writing

Connecting sentences and ideas is key in essay and report writing, and these exercises will help your fourth grader get ahead of the curve.

Transition Words 2

Children learn to identify and use common time and sequence words in this grammar and vocabulary worksheet.

Time and Sequence Words Practice

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

Adding Transition Words

Help your students' storytelling abilities with these exercises that improve their knowledge of transition words and have them use context clues to answer questions.

Transition Words 1

Designed for middle grades, this grammar worksheet is a great way to give students practice using different transition words in the context of informational texts.

Transition Words in Informational Writing

As students become more sophisticated writers, they begin to understand that words have different “jobs” in a sentence. These jobs can be thought of as parts of speech. In this word study unit, students will learn about the work that transition words, prepositions, verbs, adverbs and adjectives do. Students will also explore how certain kinds of words work together, like verbs and adverbs.

Grammar 3

In this resource, students will identify sequence words in the summary of a well-known fairy tale. Then they'll read a short story and write a summary with the help of a sequence word bank.

Summarizing with Sequence Words

Kids complete a story to help Paskiri save the world by choosing the correct transition words to finish off sentences.

Choosing Transition Words: Star Rumble Game

Students will use transition words to support understanding of comparing and contrasting.

Transition Words for Comparing & Contrasting

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Order of Operations Sequencing.

Glossary: Order of Operations Sequencing

In this resource, students will practice writing a simple summary of a fiction story using a paragraph frame with sequence words.

Paragraph Frame for Summarizing Fiction

The use of transition words helps make writing smooth and connected. Use this exercise with your students to teach them to use linking words to connect ideas within their writing.

Linking Ideas with Transition Words

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Order of Operations Sequencing.

Vocabulary Cards: Order of Operations Sequencing

Transition words introduce new ideas and connect key elements in a story. In this exercise, your students will identify and use transition words in a series of sentences.

Transition Words in Fiction

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

Character Changes Order

Everyone's heard the story of the ugly duckling, but have you met his new friend, the beastly bird? Help students learn about the importance of transition words when telling a story with this fun tale of outcasts who become fast friends!

The Ugly Duckling's New Friend

Use this exercise with your students to create short summaries with transition words.

Summary with Time Order 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

This worksheet asks students to find the transition words and to use them in their own sentences.

Tracking Transitions

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Writing About Math Expressions.

Glossary: Writing About Math Expressions

Use this exercise with your students to identify time order words in sentences, and then choose the best one to complete a series of sentences.

Time Order Transitions

Have your fifth grader use sentence details and clues to determine the best transition word to link two sentences. 

Transition Words 3

Use this worksheet to evaluate peer conversations when students are participating in collaborative conversations.

Formative Assessment: Speaking and Listening

Letter writing is an engaging and important writing format for third graders to master. You can support the development of letter writing expertise with this lesson that provides guidance on the structure and anatomy of a letter. Written by curriculum experts, this lesson will teach kids the various features that make a letter easier to read, and will also offer plenty of opportunities to practice.

Letter Writing 1

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

Transition Word Hunt

The mysterious comma is arguably the trickiest form of punctuation, which is why assigned it it’s own unit in 5th grade. As students become more sophisticated writers they craft more complex sentences. They incorporate independent phrases and clauses, generate compound sentences, and utilize transition words to combine ideas - and the exercises in this unit will teach them how to use commas correctly in each scenario.

Comma Usage

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

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2nd - 8th Grade Transition Words Resources