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.

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

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

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: 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.

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

There’s an ocean of sensory details you can use in your writing!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Introduce your students to words and phrases that will strengthen their argument writing.

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

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

Invite students to reflect on a book character’s words in this writing response worksheet featuring a quote by Auggie from Wonder.

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.

Invite students to reflect on a book character’s words in this writing response worksheet featuring a quote by Esperanza from Esperanza Rising.

Invite students to reflect on a book character’s words in this writing response worksheet featuring a quote by Ivan from The One and Only Ivan.

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

Use these 24 cards for daily writing exercises, or hand them out to encourage variety in writing!

Use these 24 cards for daily writing exercises, or hand them out to encourage variety in writing!

Improve your child's reading comprehension, and introduce them to a classic children's story, with this worksheet on The Story of a Stuffed Elephant.

Practice basic capitalization rules with this worksheet which asks: to capitalize or not capitalize?

Young writers expand their transition word lexicon in this comprehensive three-page worksheet.