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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Expository Writing Sentence Variety/rhetorical Devices/transitions

For Students 8th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn how to write an expository/procedural text that uses a variety of sentence structures, rhetorical devices, and transitions.
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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...
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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...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Tie It Up With Transition Words to Write a Story!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Read, write, and present a digital narrative with transition words to help us put the events in order! After modeling the lesson, groups of learners will write narratives to recount a short sequence of events, they will include details...
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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...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Transition Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces transition words and how they can improve writing in a video, and then provides a slide show which lists of transition words that show contrast, addition. illustration, and cause and effect. It also offers a link...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Editing for Coherence and Transition

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Rhetorical Devices and Transitions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn about two rhetorical devices that are writing performance enhancers, analogy and antithesis. You will also learn about transitional words and...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Rhetorical Devices and Transitions (English I Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn strategies for evaluating and revising rhetorical devices and transitions in an essay.
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Sophia Learning

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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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: All About Transition Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Types of transition words and how they can be used to make writing more fluid.
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Other

Indiana University of Pennsylvania: Writing Center: Organizational Problems

For Students 9th - 10th
This Indiana University of Pennsylvania Writing Center article provides tips to help students with essay organizational problems. The article suggests that students look at the essay's introduction, thesis, transitions, body paragraphs,...
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Other

Indiana University of Pennsylvania: Writing Center: Structure and Organization

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Indiana University of Pennsylvania Writing Center site provides resources to help students organize the content of their essays. Resources to help students with outlining content and incorporating transition words are provided.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Rhetorical Devices and Transitions

For Students 9th - 10th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will be able to write an essay using effective rhetorical devices and transitions.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Revise Your Writing

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn to revise your writing for clarity. You will begin by reviewing some major considerations for revision: genre, purpose, and audience. You will...
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Harvard University

Harvard University: Strategies for Essay Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This website provides a series of links to detailed information about each segment of how to write an academic essay from how to read the assignment to the final edits. Use the links to the right. W.9-10.1a claims/intro/org, W.9-10.2a...
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Sophia Learning

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 Learning

Sophia: Transitioning Topics Effectively

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A seven-slide presentation that reviews transitions and discusses how to use them to move from one idea to the next.
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Sophia Learning

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 Learning

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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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Overcoming a Personified Fear

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students read There's a Nightmare in My Closet by Mercer Mayer as they learn about writing transitions and examine the theme of overcoming their fears. Then they write original stories of their own about a fear and how they will overcome...
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Other

Berkeley County Schools: 2nd and 3rd Grade Writing Folder

For Students K - 1st Standards
This writing packet includes all final product tasks and writing process resources for all 2nd and 3rd grade students. Lists of transition words, homophones, parts of speech, and more are included.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Principles of Composition

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
If you are a teacher OR a student looking for a well-informed website on elements of the writing process, you are in luck! This site from the Capital Community College is very comprehensive and easy-to-navigate. From grammar basics to...
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: General Writing Resources

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This helpful resource details the process of writing, including how to plan, write, and revise. Content also includes the different types or genres of writing, and exercises in grammar and mechanics.

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