Sophia Learning
Sophia: Emphatic Transition Words
A six-slide presentation introducing emphatic transition words and discusses their purpose and their use.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Additive Transition Words
Six slides explaining how to use additive transition words to connect, or add, one idea to another to increase fluency. Examples are provided in a chart and within various types of sentences.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Illustrative Transition Words: Lesson 1
This lesson goes over illustration transition words and how they are used. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Illustrative Transition Words." [2:20]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Transition Words
Eight slides introducing different types of transition words including similarity, contrast, addition, illustration, and cause and effect words.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Emphatic Transition Words
Emphatic transition words are used to convey confidence and clarify relationships. This slideshow lesson gives examples and shows how and why they are useful.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: W.4.3c: Use a Variety of Transitional Words and Phrases
Links to 4 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.4.3c: Use a variety of transitional words and phrases to manage the sequence of events.
University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina: Writing Transitions
This University of North Carolina writing tutorial gives examples and how to use transitions and stresses the importance of organization. W.9-10.1c cohesion/clarity/reason, W.9-10.2c cohesion/clarity/trans, W.11-12.1c...
Other
Essay Transition Words: Compare and Contrast Transition Words
This reference page focuses on compare and contrast transition words including defining transitions and compare and contrast transitions, providing a list of transition words, and showing how to use transitions in writing essays.
University of Richmond
University of Richmond: Transitional Words and Phrases
This site has a list of transitional words and phrases organized by their function in a sentence or paragraph. Because they are organized under such headings as "providing an example" and "showing conclusions," it is easy to find an...
University of Richmond
University of Richmond: Using Transitions
A discussion of how to use transitions for effective writing. W.9-10.2c cohesion/clarity/trans, W.11-12.1c Transitions/Cohesion, W.11-12.2c Transition/Cohesion CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.2.c
Education.com
Education.com: W.4.3.c Worksheets: Use a Variety of Transitional Words
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 19 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard W.4.3.C: Use a variety of transitional words and phrases to manage the sequence...
Education.com
Education.com: W.3.3 C Worksheets: Use Temporal Words and Phrases to Signal Order
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 9 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard W.3.3C: Use temporal words and phrases to signal event order.
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Transitions and Transitional Devices
This Grammarly Handbook resource provides information about how to use transition words and transitional devices to connect sentences, paragraphs, and sections in an essay.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Paper Writing: Transitions and Topic Sentences
This tutorial focuses on transitions including transitional devices, lists of common transition words and phrases, transitions between paragraphs with examples, and separate lists of transition words for descriptive, narrative, and...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Transitional Words
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart helps students to understand commonly used transition words and phrases.
University of Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin: Using Transitions: Transitional Words and Phrases
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....
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Sentence Structures, Rhetorical Devices, & Transitions
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] The most effective expository and procedural texts contain rhetorical devices, transitional words and phrases, and a variety of sentence structures. Students will learn some...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Using Transitional Expressions [Pdf]
Practice tying your sentences and ideas together with this worksheet on transitional expressions. W.9-10.1c cohesion/clarity/reason
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Cause and Effect Transition Words: Lesson 3
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
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Emphatic Transition Words: Lesson 1
This lesson goes over emphatic transition words and how they are used. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Emphatic Transition Words."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Cause and Effect Transition Words
This lesson goes over cause and effect transition words and how they are used.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Illustrative Transition Words
This lesson goes over illustration transition words and how they are used.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Sequencing Transition Words
This lesson goes over sequence transition words and how they are used.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Editing for Coherence and Transition
In this lesson, students will learn how to edit sentences so they move seamlessly from one to another within a paragraph; however, they can use the same methods to ensure that paragraphs move seamlessly from one to another in an entire...