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Indiana University of Pennsylvania: Writing Center: Using Transitions
This Indiana University of Pennsylvania Writing Center resource provides tips to ensure organizational flow content.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Tie It Up With Transition Words to Write a Story!
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...
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Great Transitions Interactive
A Click and Learn that explores transitional fossils that provide key evidence for evolution. Use this slideshow to understand how small steps were required to make big evolutionary changes.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Connecting Sentences
This Grammarly Handbook resource provides ways to connect sentences using transition words and punctuation (colons and semi-colons). Includes a list of transitional words and their uses, and a discussion of how punctuation is used to...
Towson University
Towson University: Distinquish Between Transitive, Intransitive Verbs Exercise 3
This is a 10-question, self-grading practice/quiz on distinguishing between transitive and intransitive verbs.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Using Sources: Bringing Sources Into the Conversation
This lesson focuses on identifying the five components of the "source sandwich:" transition and introduction; a signal phrase; quotation, paraphrase, or summary; citation, and explanation of material's relevance. A practice exercise is...
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New York Subway History: Beach Pneumatic Transit
Not all inventions turn out to be good ideas! Read about Alfred Ely Beach's idea to build a pneumatic tube under the streets of New York City for subway trains to use.
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania: Solid State Chemistry: Describing Crystalline Solids
This site contains in-depth information on crystalline solids. Includes basic concepts, pictures, learning graphs, and useful tools.
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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Story Writing Frames [Pdf]
Teachers will learn how to use story writing frames with their students. Teachers will learn how to implement story frames; measure progress with story frames; and find research to support using story frames. A reproducible story frame...
Florida-Spectrum Environmental Services
Florida Spectrum: Chemical Fact Sheet: Silver
This site provides elemental information which may not be found in many other sites. Here you can find historical information, common uses and even the approximate going price for a gram of the element.
Science4Fun
Science4 Fun: Zinc
Fun and interesting information about Zinc, the 4th most used metal in the world. Learn about its characteristics, uses, where it is found, and discovery.
SUNY Empire State College
Empire State College: Shaping Information: Ordering Information and Outlining
Discusses finding a logical order for the ideas you wish to present in your essay. Uses samples to show how changing the position of the topic sentence changes the emphasis. Briefly touches on transitions. Then discusses the outline as...
The Newberry Library
Newberry: Changing Notions of Identity in the Age of the French Revolution
Learning module from the Newberry Library uses primary resources to teach about the French Revolution, transition to a republic, citizenship and national identity in an age of revolution. Primary sources and questions for consideration...
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: General Writing Resources
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.
A&E Television
History.com: Amid the Holocaust's Horrors, Many Jews Found Ways to Mark Hanukkah
From carving menorahs on stolen blocks of wood to creating makeshift wicks from scraps of fat and used loose threads, concentration camp inmates devised covert ways to celebrate the holiday. All over Europe Jews found ways to celebrate...
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English Made in Brazil: Writing English Correctly
A very useful page from English Made in Brazil designed to help Portuguese English language learners write better in English. Subject placement, objectivity, brevity, and words of transition are some of the points discussed. Great examples.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: W.4.4: Produce Clear Writing to Task, Purpose, Audience
Links to 89 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.4.4: Use a variety of transitional words and phrases to manage the sequence of events.
Davidson College
Davidson College: Phase Changes: Phase Diagram: Part 5: Critical Point
Explains what the critical point in a phase change is and ways that a transition from a liquid to a gas can take place. Students investigate the concepts using a Java simulation.
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Analog to Digital: Why and How to Teach Students to Write for an Online Audience
This article discusses the importance of teaching students how to write for an online audience using traditional writing skills but transitioning these to digital media. The author talks about ways to incorporate social media and...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Poor Children's Fourth Grade Slump
Teachers have often reported a fourth-grade slump in literacy development, particularly for low-income children, at the critical transition from "learning to read" to "reading to learn." This study uses Chall's stages of reading...
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