Select appropriate time-order or transitional words/phrases to enhance the flow of a writing sample. SPI 0501.3.10

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1. Build A Story - Select the appropriate phrases to create a story.
2. Gap fill Exercise - Fill in blanks in paragraph with a transitional word
3. How to Write a Chronological narrative - Add words and phrases to the story
4. Making Connections - lesson plan - connect ideas in expository writing with effective transitions. teacher materials included
5. Making Connections: a Mini-lesson - transitional words are used to show how ideas are connected in this lesson from Scholastic
6. Paragraph Coherence - several exercises with answers supplied [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
7. Paragraph Coherence - Coherence in a paragraph is the technique of making words, phrases, and sentences move smoothly and logically from one to the other
8. Paragraph Structure Exercise - number sentences in an appropriate order to form a well-structured paragraph [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
9. Paragraph Writing Exercise - several exercises asking your students to input their writing online
10. Practice With Explaining a Process - Put the steps of each of the following ten processes in order. [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
11. Sentence Variety - list of words to use for transition
12. Story Shackles (Linking Students To Written Text) - lesson plan - Story Shackles is an imaginative and stimulating way for students to acquire the ability to retell events of a story or text, sequence the action or happenings in a story, or to simply summarize the plot, main ideas with supporting details, or general information of a story or text
13. Story Building
    1. Build a Story - [A special Christmas Present] Three sentences are presented. You select the one you think comes first and gradually build a story.
    2. Build a Story - [Nasreddin and the Beggar] Three sentences are presented. You select the one you think comes first and gradually build a story.
    3. Build a Story - [Nasreddin and the Ferry Man] Three sentences are presented. You select the one you think comes first and gradually build a story.
    4. Build a Story - [Nasreddin and the Pot] Three sentences are presented. You select the one you think comes first and gradually build a story.
    5. Build a Story - [Nasreddin and the Smell of Soup] Three sentences are presented. You select the one you think comes first and gradually build a story.
    6. Build a Story - [Nasreddin Goes Shopping] Three sentences are presented. You select the one you think comes first and gradually build a story.
    7. Build a Story - [Nasreddin's Visitors] Three sentences are presented. You select the one you think comes first and gradually build a story.
    8. Build a Story - [Two Sisters and a Cat] Three sentences are presented. You select the one you think comes first and gradually build a story.
14. Story Sequence with Word - lesson plan - the description contains a link to a Word document to download - you can insert your own stories in the boxes and let your students place them in correct sequence
15. Time Order words - lesson followed by an activity
16. Transitional Devices -A list of some common transitional devices that can be used to cue readers.
17. Transitional Words - often used transitional word list to print for students [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
18. Transitional words - list of words that will pull sentences and paragraphs together.
19. Transitional words - words to help your sentences pull together.
20. Transitional Words and Phrases - Worksheet Activity - for beginners in this concept
21. Writing Transitions - Article and Examples.

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