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TES Global

Blendspace: Transition Signals

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
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.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Sentence Structures, Rhetorical Devices, & Transitions

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
[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...
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Transition Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Principles of a Composition

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

Sophia: Ionic Compounds: Binary Compound Names With Transition Metals: Lesson 4

For Students 9th - 10th
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."
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Revising Thesis and Topic Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
Handout
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Writing Essays for Exams

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: The Vocabulary Fashion Show

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
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,...
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The Write Place

Literacy Education Online

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Connectives

For Teachers 1st - 6th Standards
[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.
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The Write Place

Literacy Education Online: Logical Fallacies

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Ions

For Students 9th - 10th
[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....
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Soil Acidity: Comparing P H and Buffering Capacity of Soils

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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...