Transition Words and Phrases

Are you ready for your students to use a variety of more sophisticated transitions in their writing? These resources give you the tools you need: a handy flipbook and coordinating posters with transition word lists sorted by use, a set of revising and editing checklists, and task cards for revision practice.

Transition Words Flipbook

Product Features

• Resource that students can use over and over all year long
• Spark immediate and lasting improvement in your students' writing
• Easy to assemble and use
• Print and digital options included

Contents

1. Product overview
2. Tips for printing AND link to Google Slides version
3. How to Assemble Your Flip Book (with photos)
4. Flip book cover
5. Time/sequence, Location, Emphasis, Add information
6. Add an example, Clarify ideas
7. Comparison, Contrast
8. Cause/reason, Result/effect
9. Show purpose, Conclusion

Transition Words Posters

Product Features

• Coordinates perfectly with the Transition Words flipbook
• Resource students will refer to over and over again all year long
• Easy to print PDF file
• Based on ELA standards

Contents

1. Product overview
2. Table of contents
3. Tips for printing PDF files
4. Purposes for transition words and phrases - Create cohesion
5. Clarify relationships among ideas and concepts
6. Convey sequence
7. Signal shifts in time or setting
8. Show relationships among events
9. Clarify relationships among claims, reasons, and evidence
10. Lists of example transition words and phrases - Time and sequence
11. Location
12. Emphasis
13. Add information
14. Add an example
15. Clarify ideas
16. Compare
17. Contrast
18. Give cause or reason
19. State result or effect
20. Show purpose
21. Conclude
22. Print and cut bulletin board title

Writing Revision Checklist for Transitions

Product Features

• No prep -- just print and use!
• Works well for student self-assessment or peer revision
• Reuse again and again all year
• PDF format is easy to use on any computer

Contents

1. Resource overview
2. Revision checklist for argumentative writing
3. Revision checklist for expository writing
4. Revision checklist for narrative writing
5. Printable poster: Give your writing a glow-up with transitions
6. Printable poster: Cohesion, clarity, voice, punctuation

Writing Revision Task Cards for Transitions

Product Features

• Coordinates perfectly with the Writing Revision Checklist
• Task cards for 3 modes of writing: argument, expository, & narrative
• Printable task cards include color and low ink options
• Google Slides version for remote or flipped learning

Contents

1. Resource overview

2. Table of contents with link to copy Google Slides

3. Tips for printing PDF files

4-7. Revising argumentative writing - color task cards

8-11. Revising expository writing - color task cards

12-15. Revising narrative writing - color task cards

16-19. Revising argumentative writing - b&w

20-23. Revising expository writing - b&w

24-27. Revising narrative writing - b&w

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