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.
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...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Transition Words
This tutorial focuses on transition words. In text it defines transition words and how they improve writing; in PDF it provides a list of transition words and phrases by category with examples. Using a PowerPoint presentation, it...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Principles of a Composition
Writing a Paper? Here at the Capital Community College is everything you could ever ask for while preparing your essay. This site includes the writing process, structure, thesis statement, transitions, the computer as a writing...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Ionic Compounds: Binary Compound Names With Transition Metals: Lesson 4
This lesson will demonstrate how to write a chemical formula for a binary ionic compound that includes a transition metal. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "Ionic Compounds: Formulas from Binary Compound Names with Transition Metals."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Revising Thesis and Topic Sentences
A series of notes and lessons focused on writing thesis statements and topic sentences. The lesson begins with a four-page downloadable PDF containing information about the function and form of a thesis statement as well as how to...
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Writing Essays for Exams
This handout provides a comprehensive look at writing essays for exams including what a well-written answer to an essay exam question includes, a step-by-step decription of how to write an effective essay exam, an explanation of patterns...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Vocabulary Fashion Show
Inspired by Debra Frasier's clever vocabulary fair from her book, Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster, individual students will imagine what a vocabulary fashion show would be like. Assuming the role of a fashion show announcer,...
The Write Place
Literacy Education Online
Literacy Education Online (or LEO) is a great place to start if you need help with your writing. The homepage is organized around kinds of problems or questions you might have concerning your writing. Find your problem, click on the...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Connectives
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart investigates connecting words and phrases, providing examples with different kinds of text. It helps students to identify the connecting words by helping them classify the various examples.
The Write Place
Literacy Education Online: Logical Fallacies
This site from the St. Cloud State University provides many links in this index with general writing help. Under "Development" you'll find "Sensory Details." Under "Logical Fallicies" you'll find a link by the same name. Look under...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Ions
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In the following online tutorial students will be able to determine the number of valence electrons for any element and draw an electron dot diagram for any atom....
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Soil Acidity: Comparing P H and Buffering Capacity of Soils
As part of acid rain study, (environmental chemistry lab) young scholars investigate the differences in pH of soil samples. They will collect and dry samples from the local prairie including grassland, transition, forest and riverbank...