Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Principles of Composition
If you are a teacher OR a student looking for a well-informed website on elements of the writing process, you are in luck! This site from the Capital Community College is very comprehensive and easy-to-navigate. From grammar basics to...
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Elementary School Transition Words and Phrases
This article focuses on transition words and phrases including how to explain them to children and providing lists of transition words and phrases by types such as Time and Sequence, Cause and Effect, and Conclusion. It also provides a...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Tie It Up With Transition Words to Write a Story!
Read, write, and present a digital narrative with transition words to help us put the events in order! After modeling the instructional activity, groups of learners will write narratives to recount a short sequence of events, they will...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Chronological Transition Words
This slideshow lesson focuses on chronological transition words; it defines and lists the categories of transition words. It defines chronological transition words, states their purpose, provides a list of them, and shows how to write...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: W.4.4: Produce Clear Writing to Task, Purpose, Audience
Links to 89 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.4.4: Use a variety of transitional words and phrases to manage the sequence of events.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Buddies Create Power Point Stories
Contains plans for five lessons that ask students to create PowerPoint presentations about shared experiences like field trips or other activities. Students take pictures of what happen, and then explain the sequence of events in words...
SMART Technologies
Smart: Sequence Putting Things in Order
Students will practice putting things in order, learn about sequence words, and use sequence words to produce a writing assignment within this interactive SMART whiteboard lesson.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Reviewing Sequence of Events
Students will identify time-order words in order to comprehend passages, place events in sequential order on a time line, and use a flow chart to organize their thoughts for writing in this interactive SMART whiteboard activity.
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.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Sequence of Events
Build sequencing skills by looking at transition words like first, next, then, and finally. Read four short paragraphs and use the transition clues to put the events in the correct order. Then use these words while typing an original...
ACT360 Media
Writing Den
The WritingDEN includes feature articles with associated words, sentences, and paragraphs to aid in the writing process. Interactive features include pronunciation guides and content quizzes. The Tips-o-matic section offers grammar...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: By Car, Train, or Bus! The Sounds of Language on the Go
Come and check out this awesome pre-reading resource. This site offers examples of simple word games you can play with kids to increase their ability to recognize and use letters and sounds. Try these games the next time you're in the...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Curious George: Count With Allie
Use this game resource to foster the skill of counting and representing quantities in different ways - using real objects, drawings, words and numerals. With George and his friend Allie, children will also read and write numerals 0 to 19.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Curious George: Hide and Seek
Your child will learn reading, writing, and representing numbers in this fun game from Curious George. Help George search for hidden numbers, words, and animals in this hide-and-seek game.
Books in the Classroom
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Eric Carle
What do you know about Eric Carle, the author? This Carol Hurst site highlights some interesting facts about this author's life and refers to some of his books.