Lesson Plan
Transition Word Hunter
Help your students learn how to move smoothly between ideas and paragraphs using transition words and phrases. Young writers will use real texts as mentors as they study how authors use words to transition between ideas and support their claims. As a result, they will have a word bank to use in their own writing.
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to identify transition words.
Introduction
(10 minutes)- Write the following transition words and phrases on the board: before, now, after, afterwards, later, earlier, while, after a while, as soon as, before, earlier, immediately, lately, since, then, until, when.
- Instruct students to turn to a classmate and tell a story. It can be something that they actually experienced or something made-up. There is only one rule: They can’t use any of the words on the board.
- When done, discuss as a class. Ask, "How did it go? What was challenging about it? Why?"