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Your Dictionary: Introducing Transition Words

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
This article offers a detailed activity to introduce transition words.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Make Inferences in Informational/expository Text

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will be taking a look at how authors of informational texts, such as expository texts, organize their writing and the effects that organization can have...
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University of Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin: Using Transitions: Transitional Words and Phrases

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Tables of words that show different types of sentence transitions. W.9-10.1c cohesion/clarity/reason, W.9-10.2c cohesion/clarity/transitions. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.4, W.11-12.1c Transitions/Cohesion, W.11-12.2c Transition/Cohesion....
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Reading Rockets: Teach Expository Text Structure to Facilitate Comprehension

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Expository text can be challenging to young readers because of the unfamiliar concepts and vocabulary it presents. Discover ways to help your students analyze expository text structures and pull apart the text to uncover the main idea...
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University of Oregon

Pizzaz, Creative Writing & Storytelling: Storytelling Boxes

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This PIZZAZ lesson allows students the opportunity to engage in the small group task of audio-storytelling or video storytelling, after being given a shoebox filled with symbols and unique items.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Emphatic Transition Words: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson goes over emphatic transition words and how they are used. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Emphatic Transition Words."
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Coherence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Discusses the importance of coherence in a composition. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.4. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.1.c
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Transitional Words

For Teachers 3rd - 9th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart helps students to understand commonly used transition words and phrases.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Chronological Transition Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Illustrative Transition Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson goes over illustration transition words and how they are used.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Sequencing Transition Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson goes over sequence transition words and how they are used.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Cause and Effect Transition Words: Lesson 3

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson goes over cause and effect transition words and how they are used. It is 3 of 3 in the series titled "Cause and Effect Transition Words." W.9-10.2c cohesion/clarity/trans, W.11-12.2c Transition/Cohesion