Lessons tagged with "transitions"
Revise Writing
- Grade:
- 5
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing strategies lesson focuses on identifying an effective transition between paragraphs. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the question to determine what they are looking for in the text. Then they read both paragraph of the passage and identify the main idea of each one. Finally, they identify the best transition between paragraphs -- the sentence that combines the main ideas of both. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive test items.
Revise Writing to Improve Organization of Ideas Between Paragraphs
- Grade:
- 6
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
Identify Compound Sentences with Transitions
- Grade:
- 7
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on identifying compound sentences. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the sentence and label and independent clauses, and transitions. Then, they determine if it is a compound sentence and how the sentences are related. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Use Transitions between Sentences to Unify Important Ideas
- Grade:
- 7
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing strategies lesson focuses on using transitions between sentences to unify important ideas. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read a paragraph and identify comparing and contrasting, cause and effect, add or sequence ideas within the sentence or paragraph. Using the transition table (word bank), students select the appropriate transition to place between sentences. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Revise Writing to Use Effective Transitions Between Paragraphs
- Grade:
- 8
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing strategies lesson focuses on revising writing to use effective transitions between paragraphs. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the paragraph and identify any details that have a common idea and would suggest the main idea. Then, they determine the main idea of each paragraph. Finally, they determine the relationship between the paragraphs and select an effective transition sentence from the choices given. In addition to the lesson, there are four more pages for Independent Practice and review modeled after current adaptive testing items.