University of Richmond
University of Richmond: Using Transitions
A discussion of how to use transitions for effective writing. W.9-10.2c cohesion/clarity/trans, W.11-12.1c Transitions/Cohesion, W.11-12.2c Transition/Cohesion CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.2.c
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: All About Transition Words
Types of transition words and how they can be used to make writing more fluid.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Transitions
This lesson focuses on transitions including their importance in a speech, types of transitions, how to use transitions, internal previews, and internal summaries.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Transition Words
A variety of presentation formats including notes, a PowerPoint presentation, exercises, a game, and a video [1:46] explaining transition words and their function as well as providing examples of transition words to be used for specific...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Transitioning Topics Effectively
A seven-slide presentation that reviews transitions and discusses how to use them to move from one idea to the next.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: W.4.3c: Use a Variety of Transitional Words and Phrases
Links to 4 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.4.3c: Use a variety of transitional words and phrases to manage the sequence of events.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Writing Transitions
Discusses how to transition effectively between paragraphs. Includes examples and how they can be revised to connect the ideas better. The second page of the resource has lists of transitional words and phrases categorized by how they...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Readability: Commas as Separators
This lesson focuses on recognizing and demonstrating the use of commas as separators including with transition words, descriptive phrases, and adjacent items. It also provides a practice activity.
Other
Raising Children Network Limited: Changing Routines: Autism
This resource provides strategies to use with students who struggle with changes in transitions and daily routines. Examples of changes in routines are provided, along with visual strategies and social stories. These tools may be used...
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Toefl Practice Site: Coherence and Unity
This site discusses coherence achieved through major and minor connector transitions. Examples are given, and there is a link to an exercise meant for the particular class this site was designed for, still useful practice for anyone....
Florida-Spectrum Environmental Services
Florida Spectrum: Chemical Fact Sheet: Rhodium
Nice thorough entry on rhodium from SpectrumLabs, its properties and uses.
Get It Write
Get It Write: "Sit" and "Set"
Learn something about the conjugation of verbs and transitive and intransitive verbs in this discussion about the meaning of "sit" and "set." This tutorial will teach you how to use these words correctly. A brief quiz checks your...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Skillful Slideshows
During this technology-based lesson, students learn how to create slideshow presentations that are creative and inviting to the audience. They use fonts, graphics, effects, etc, to capture audience attention.
Science4Fun
Science4 Fun: Mercury Element
Fun and interesting information about Mercury, a common element used in thermometers. Learn about its characteristics, uses, where it is found, and discovery.
Science4Fun
Science4 Fun: Titanium
Fun and interesting information about Titanium, the 9th most abundant element on the Earth. Learn about its characteristics, uses, where it is found, and discovery.
Corrosion Source
Corrosion Source: Rhodium
Gives good basic information on rhodium, its history, sources, uses and properties.
Other
New Brunswick Museum: The Adventure Begins: A Historical Fiction
In this lesson plan, learners research New Brunswick in the 1800s using primary source materials and then write a historical fiction piece about a new immigrant. Click on the Word links to access the lesson materials.
Other
New Brunswick Museum: Social Reality Portrayed Through Pictures
In this lesson, students use photographs from the early days of Saint John, New Brunswick to analyze its evolving social fabric, and complete a research project. Click on the Word files to access the lesson materials.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Coherence
Discusses the importance of coherence in a composition. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.4. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.1.c
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Westerbork
Article about the camp at Westerbork, the Netherlands, originally created by the Dutch to intern Jewish refugees, but later used as a transit camp by the Nazis, a holding place for Jews being sent to other concentration camps.
Wessels Living History Farm
Wessels Living History Farm
The Wessels Living History Farm of York County, Nebraska, offers a look at what it was like to live on a Great Plains farm in the 1920s. The farm's attractive and well organized website includes interviews with people who remember life...
University of Ottawa (Canada)
University of Ottawa: The Writing Center: Verbals
After a discussion and explanation of verbals in general, this site specifically discusses the gerund and the participle (with a link to the infinitive) and also provides examples of each.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Indirect Measurement
Made to measure! In this lesson students will be able to use the transitive principle for indirect measurement as they compare the lengths of the objects to each other.
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