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The Paragraph

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Review the components of a well-written paragraph with your class. Be sure your writers include a topic sentence supported with main ideas and followed by a conclusion. Unity, coherence, and transition words are emphasized. Experiment...
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Be a Sequence Detective!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Authors are constantly leaving clues that help the reader to understand the sequence of events in a story. Teach young readers how to pick up on these key temporal words and phrases with this slide show. After an introduction to commonly...
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Transitions

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Transitions are the focus of a presentation that includes information about the importance of transitions and types of transitions. Included is a list of commonly used transition words.
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Using Transitions

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Transitions, words that reveal the relationship between two ideas, are the subject of a presentation that provides color-coded illustrations to show viewers how this part of speech functions in sentences. The PowerPoint concludes with an...
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The Different Kinds of Connectives

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Connectives are words that link clauses or sentences. Conjunctions link clauses with in a sentence, so get ready to bring two thoughts together with this slide show on connectives. Listed are various types of connectives used to compare...
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VCOP

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Ambitious vocabulary, various connectives, interesting openers, and a punctuation pyramid are provided in this colorful PowerPoint. Your pupils will be on their way to becoming fantastic VCOP detectives with the great pointers and...
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Five Minute Quickies

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Challenge your class to take just five minutes to complete the tasks in each slide. The end result will be a short story. Each text includes writing a certain element of a story: opener, ending, characters, and more. After completing...
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Connective Blockbusters

For Teachers 4th - 5th
A very clever language arts game awaits your class in this short language arts presentation. Connective words and phrases such as: so, however, unless, until, as well, and even though are on a game board. Pupils must make up a sentence...
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The Expository Essay

For Teachers 6th - 11th
Did you ever create an awesome graphic organizer only to find that your class was completely baffled by how to use it? This resource not only provides you with a great graphic organizer for a standard five-paragraph essay, but also...
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Editing

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Are your writers ready to edit their papers? Present them with these editing tips including reading papers out loud, varying sentence openings and lengths, and using action verbs. While the tips are worthwhile, consider supplementing the...
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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...
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Sophia: Sequencing Transition Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on sequencing transition words; it explains the purpose of transition words in general and then lists sequencing transition words by purpose: numerical, continuation, summation, and conclusion. It provides...
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Sophia: Cause and Effect Transition Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on cause and effect transition words; it defines and lists the categories of transition words. It discusses when to use cause and effect transition words, provides a list of sample words, and offers sentence...
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Sophia: Additive Transition Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on additive transition words; it defines transition words and lists the categories. It explains what additive transitions do and when to use them, it provides a list of additive transition words and example...
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Sophia: Concluding Transition Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on the use of concluding transition words; it defines transition words and lists the categories. It explains when and how to use concluding transitions, provides a sample list of them, and offers sentence...
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Sophia: Transition Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson discusses transition words including the roles of transition words, their purpose in topic sentences, lists of transition words and phrases by purpose, and transitions within sentences.
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Sophia: Emphatic Transition Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A six-slide presentation introducing emphatic transition words and discusses their purpose and their use.
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Sophia: Additive Transition Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Sophia: Transition Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Eight slides introducing different types of transition words including similarity, contrast, addition, illustration, and cause and effect words.
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Sophia: Emphatic Transition Words

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Emphatic transition words are used to convey confidence and clarify relationships. This slideshow lesson gives examples and shows how and why they are useful.
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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: 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
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Sophia: Cause and Effect Transition Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson goes over cause and effect transition words and how they are used.
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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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