Transition Words
A helpful way to begin teaching students about transition words:
- Call attention to ways transition words are used within your classroom read aloud or the book being used for reading groups.
- Find a particular paragraph that sequences something, an opening that catches everyone’s attention, or words that mark the ending of a chapter or idea.
- Use these models as a way to discuss students’ own writing.
- Encourage students to review something they’ve written and look for evidence of transition words.
- Ask students to find places within their own writing where transition words will clarify what they’re trying to say or help the piece by moving the action along.
- Using editing marks, have students revise their writing using just the right transition words.
(n.d.). Transition words. Retrieved from Reading Rockets website: http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/transition_words/
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