This a PPT created to help the teachers of tomorrow actually teach the ability to use and build Transitions in writing. Created cooperatively with a dear classmate Richard Gunn. Always thinking about you my friend Lakehead University Faculty of Ed. Graduate Year BEd.

1. Transitions
By: Richard Gunn and Carmelo
Bono

2. Learning Goals
• We will learn what it means to transition
between sentences.
• We will learn techniques for teaching this
aspect of grammar to a class.

3. “Transition to the say what?”
• Transitioning between sentences
• Certain words and phrases can be used to
create movement between ideas through
the sentences of a text. This can be done
smoothly without breaking the stream of
thought, if used correctly.
• Transitions can also be used to improve
organization of a dense work

4. Transitions in the Classroom
• To help give you a rough idea of what transitions
do, think of in a classroom setting; a teacher is
trying to switch between topics; going from
History to English or from dealing with a
distraction to moving back into the course
material.
• Switching between ideas or topics without a
transition will often to lose readers or students if
they are not eased into the new topic or idea

5. Transitions Rap
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m894gzYQ

6. “Where can I use Transitions?”
• Addition
• Consequence
• Contrast and comparison
• Direction
• Diversion
• Emphasis
• Exception
• Exemplifying
• Generalizing
• Illustration
• Similarity
• Restatement
• Sequence
• Summarizing

7. Example of How work Sounds
Without Transitions
• This is a sample question I came across in
a personal favourite tool of mine in the
classroom “Mindtrap” (riddle and puzzled
based game).

8. • While playing with a metal washer shaped like a
ring, Scheming Suzie accidentally pushed it on
her finger too far and couldn’t get it off. Trying to
remove it using soap and water didn’t work. The
Hospital sent her to a service station thinking
they could cut the metal. Unfortunately, the ring
was made with a specially hardened steel so it
couldn’t be cut. Just then Professor Quantum
arrived on the scene and suggested and easy
way to remove the washer in just a few minutes.
What was his solution?

9. “What are you asking of me
teacher?”
• Looking at that last problem you had to
read it at least twice, if not then extremely
slowly to make sure you understood what
it was that was being asked of you.
• A lot of word problems in math try to
incorporate questions like this that seem
to confuse more than strengthen the
language skills of students completing
them.

10. “What are you asking of me
teacher?”
• Looking at that last problem you had to
read it at least twice, if not then extremely
slowly to make sure you understood what
it was that was being asked of you.
• A lot of word problems in math try to
incorporate questions like this that seem
to confuse more than strengthen the
language skills of students completing
them.