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Elementary School Common Core Transition Words Resources

These sentence starters support basic writing skills and organizing thoughts for kindergarteners. Telling stories not only builds creativity, it helps kids learn about communication.

Story Starters for New Writers

Help your child learn to write clearly and concisely by writing her own set of "how to" instructions.

Writing Instructions

Children will read simple pasta directions, then select the correct transition words from the choices shown.

Adding Transition Words

Children learn to identify and use common time and sequence words in this grammar and vocabulary worksheet.

Time and Sequence Words Practice

Students will use transition words to support understanding of comparing and contrasting.

Transition Words for Comparing & Contrasting

Connecting sentences and ideas is key in essay and report writing, and these exercises will help your fourth grader get ahead of the curve.

Transition Words 2

In this resource, students will identify sequence words in the summary of a well-known fairy tale. Then they'll read a short story and write a summary with the help of a sequence word bank.

Summarizing with Sequence Words

Help your students' storytelling abilities with these exercises that improve their knowledge of transition words and have them use context clues to answer questions.

Transition Words 1

The use of transition words helps make writing smooth and connected. Use this exercise with your students to teach them to use linking words to connect ideas within their writing.

Linking Ideas with Transition Words

Use this exercise with your students to create short summaries with transition words.

Summary with Time Order Words

In this resource, students will practice writing a simple summary of a fiction story using a paragraph frame with sequence words.

Paragraph Frame for Summarizing Fiction

Help your students solidify their use of transition words with this cute version of the classic ugly duckling story. By helping to fill in the missing transition words throughout the narrative, students will flex their sequencing and organization skills.

Narrative Transition Words & Phrases

This worksheet asks students to find the transition words and to use them in their own sentences.

Tracking Transitions

Use this worksheet to practice sequencing a character’s feelings using transition words.

Character Changes Order

Transition words introduce new ideas and connect key elements in a story. In this exercise, your students will identify and use transition words in a series of sentences.

Transition Words in Fiction

A Recipe for Transition Use

Use this exercise with your students to identify time order words in sentences, and then choose the best one to complete a series of sentences.

Time Order Transitions

Children add more transition words to their sequencing arsenal in this word-sorting worksheet.

Time Transition Word Sort

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Writing About Math Expressions.

Glossary: Writing About Math Expressions

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Order of Operations Sequencing.

Glossary: Order of Operations Sequencing

Use this worksheet to evaluate peer conversations when students are participating in collaborative conversations.

Formative Assessment: Speaking and Listening

Students can practice finding transition words using a sample text about the popularity of soccer that’s chock full of transitions.

America's Favorite Sport Is Transitioning from Baseball and Football to Soccer

Everyone's heard the story of the ugly duckling, but have you met his new friend, the beastly bird? Help students learn about the importance of transition words when telling a story with this fun tale of outcasts who become fast friends!

The Ugly Duckling's New Friend

Give your students the opportunity to practice combining ideas using transition words and conjunctions.

Linking Up Ideas

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Order of Operations Sequencing.

Vocabulary Cards: Order of Operations Sequencing

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Explain Fraction Conversions.

Glossary: Explain Fraction Conversions

Students will use real nonfiction texts to search for transition words and then consider how they are used to connect ideas.

Transition Word Hunt

A lot can happen in a day! Transition words can help us organize our thoughts into a sequential story. Use this activity to teach students the importance of transition words as they tell about their day...all with the help of sentence frames!

Tell About the Transitions

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Explain Fraction Conversions.

Vocabulary Cards: Explain Fraction Conversions

Kids help complete a fun story about another galaxy by filling in the correct transition words.

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