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Transitions. What are transition words?. A word or phrase that links two ideas or sentences These show how ideas connect If there are no transitions, readers must make the ‘connections’ on their own This slows reading down and makes it confusing. Transition Words. Example:

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  1. Transitions What are transition words?

  2. A word or phrase that links two ideas or sentences These show how ideas connect If there are no transitions, readers must make the ‘connections’ on their own This slows reading down and makes it confusing Transition Words

  3. Example: John skipped meals regularly. Therefore, he was always hungry. Transitions

  4. It was an unusually cold spring. The trees were leafing out. It was an unusually cold spring. However, the trees were leafing out. Add the missing transition

  5. Walt never cleaned out the inside of his car. Nevertheless, it smelled and looked horrible! This transition makes no sense. It suggests a contrast when no contrast is asked for. What is wrong with this transition?

  6. Walt never cleaned out the inside of his car. Consequently, it smelled and looked horrible! Revision

  7. Can occur anywhere - At the beginning of a sentence In the middle of a sentence At the end of a sentence Transition Words

  8. A transition word directly tells the reader the logical relationship between one idea and another idea. Transition Words Transition Idea Idea

  9. Words to show LOCATION • Above • Across • Against • Along • Among • Around • Behind • Below • Beneath • Beside • Between • Beyond • By • Down • In back of • In front of • Inside • Into • Near • Off • Onto • On top of • Outside • Over • Throughout • To the right • Under

  10. Words to Show TIME • While • After • At • Before • During • First • Second • Third • Now • Until • Meanwhile • Today • Tomorrow • Next week • Yesterday • Soon • Later • Afterward • Immediately • Finally • Then • Next • As soon as • When • Suddenly

  11. Words to COMPARE (two things) • Likewise • Like • As • Also • While • Similarly • In the same way • In contrast

  12. But However Still Yet Although Otherwise On the other hand Even though Words to CONTRAST(to show differences between things)

  13. Ty’ree was all right after Mama died. But I was all wrong. The year before, I’d seen this show about snakes. They showed this one snake slipping out of its old skin and then leaving that old skin on the ground behind him. That’s how I felt – like Mama’d been my skin. But I hadn’t grown a new skin underneath, like that snake had. I was just blood and bones spreading all over the place. Every night Ty’ree stayed with me in my room till I cried myself to sleep. And the next morning he’d find me sleeping curled up on the floor beside his bed. After a few weeks of me ending up on the floor, he called Aunt Cecile, and she came back to new York and asked around trying to find a doctor I could go to – a psychologist. Some afternoons I’d come home from school to find Aunt Cecile sitting at the dining room table writing down and crossing out numbers as she talked on the phone. And some evenings I’d catch her and Ty’ree whispering about different doctors, their fees and social benefits. Then, one afternoon Aunt Cecile announced that she’d found a person I could talk to named Dr. Vernon. That Wednesday and for a whole lot of Wednesdays after that, Aunt Cecile would take me to Dr. Vernon – an old man with a nice office in Harlem. -from Miracle Boys by Jacqueline Woodson

  14. Ty’ree was all right after Mama died. But I was all wrong. The year before, I’d seen this show about snakes. They showed this one snake slipping out of its old skin and then leaving that old skin on the ground behind him. That’s how I felt – like Mama’d been my skin. But I hadn’t grown a new skin underneath, like that snake had. I was just blood and bones spreading all over the place. Every night Ty’ree stayed with me in my room till I cried myself to sleep. And the next morning he’d find me sleeping curled up on the floor beside his bed.

  15. After a few weeks of me ending up on the floor, he called Aunt Cecile, and she came back to new York and asked around trying to find a doctor I could go to – a psychologist. Some afternoons I’d come home from school to find Aunt Cecile sitting at the dining room table writing down and crossing out numbers as she talked on the phone. And some evenings I’d catch her and Ty’ree whispering about different doctors, their fees and social benefits.

  16. Then, one afternoon Aunt cEcile announced that she’d found a person I could talk to named Dr. Vernon. That Wednesday and for a whole lot of Wednesdays after that, Aunt Cecile would take me to Dr. Vernon – an old man with a nice office in Harlem.

  17. Add Transitions words to your Persuasive Essay. Hi-light or underline each.

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