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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 glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.

Glossary: Summarizing with Sequence Words

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

Transition Words for Comparing & Contrasting

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

Time and Sequence Words Practice

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.

Vocabulary Cards: Summarizing with Sequence Words

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

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

Transition Words 3

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

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

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

Better Together: Introduction to Combining Sentences

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

Give your students the opportunity to practice combining ideas using transition words and conjunctions.

Linking Up Ideas

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

Practice Using Transitions #1

Practice Using Transitions #2

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

Tracking Transitions

In this game, kids will interact with a story by moving the plot forward with carefully selected words.

Transition Bugs: Star Rumble

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

Transition Word Hunt

Use this word bank to identify 10 alternatives for the words &quot;said,&quot; &quot;sad,&quot; and &quot;went.

Creating Word Banks

Paraphrasing means putting another's writing into your own words. This is an important skill for middle school children to master.

Paraphrasing: Rosa Parks

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

Paraphrasing is an important skill for writing a research paper. Students can practice putting someone else's writing into their own words.

Paraphrasing: Van Gogh

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

The ability to paraphrase is a valuable skill! Help your child learn to put informational text in her own words, with this passage about the Nile River.

Paraphrasing: The Nile River

As Mother&#39;s Day approaches, everyone&#39;s grateful! Let your third grader assemble this special book with words from the whole family.

Make a Mother's Day Book

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

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

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

A Recipe for Transition Use

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