This document discusses different types of transition words that can be used when writing, including time, place, thought, compare/contrast, example, and summary transitions. It provides examples for each type of transition words to link related ideas and hold a story or writing together. The purpose is to help writers clearly communicate by using strategies like transition words to construct their writing. It encourages practicing these transition words and creating an interactive flipbook to test your knowledge.

1. Transition
Words
By Sandra Pagliughi
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2. Learning Goal
The purpose of writing is to
Clearly communicate with others
and be able to use strategies and
skills to
construct
communication.
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3. Transition
Words
link related ideas
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4. and
holds
them
together
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5. When writing a narrative
essay Tradition Words
link together to move
the story along.
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6. There are
several
different
kinds
of transition
words
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7. Time Transitions Photo courtesy of shutterstock.com
Help the reader know the order of events in a story

8. Before • Meanwhile • After
Soon • Eventually • Immediately
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9. Transitional Time
Phrases
At that very moment
Shortly after that
Along the way
After all that
An hour later
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10. Thought Transitions
add
clarity
and
voice
to
one’s
writing

11. Thought
Transitions
Also Mainly
Furthermore Because
For example Otherwise
Suddenly

12. Place
Transitions
Place
transitions
provide
a new
setting
for your
reader
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13. Place Transitions
Above • Next to • Beyond • Nearby
Closer to • Elsewhere • Farther on
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14. Compare
And
Contrast
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15. Compare and Contrast
Transition Words
Tell when writer
Is changing
from
thinking
about
one thing
to another
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16. Compare
Again
Also
In the same way
Likewise
Once more
Similarly
By the way
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17. Contrast
Although
But
Despite
However
On the other
hand
Yet
Instead
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18. Example Transitions
A strategy
Expository
writers use to
explain their
writing
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19. Example Transitions
For example
To illustrate
For instance
Specifically
Such as
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20. Summary Transitions
Words that help the writer
sum it all up
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21. Summary
Transitions
As a result
Finally
All in all
To summarize
In Conclusion
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22. Summary Transitions
In short • In other words
From now on • To sum it all up
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23. Let’s Practice
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24. Test Your Skill!
Do you want to test your knowledge?
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25. Create Your Own
Interactive Flipbook!
Now show what you know by creating a
Flipbook!

26. Give Your Self a
Hand!
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27. Sunshine State
Standards
•LA4311 •LA4333
•LA4312 •LA4334
•LA4313 •LA4342
•LA4321 •LA4343
•LA4322 •LA4346
•LA4331 •LA4353
•LA4332
Resources
Read, Write, Think (2012, December 2012) Retrieved from
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/flipbook/
Shutterstock. (2012, September 30). Stock Photos and Royalty-
Free Images by Subscription - Shutterstock. Retrieved September
30, 2012, from http://www.shutterstock.com