What important facts about Dr. Seuss influenced the Read Across America movement...? This is the driving question of a research project that requires scholars to find information about Dr. Seuss' life and work. Class...

Therefore! However! Furthermore! Explore the power of transition words and phrases. Signal your readers by suggesting the relationship between different thoughts or points. Help them demonstrate an understanding of word relationships. 

What is the missing link? Provide your class with this incomplete essay (it's missing transition words), and have writers place words from the transition word bank into the essay. Also, since only three of the five paragraphs are...

Work on using transition words in context by prompting elementary and middle schoolers to write their own persuasive essays using transition words. They explore new forms of transition words and examine how they are used in an editorial...

A comprehensive approach to writing coherent paragraphs and knowing how to transition between paragraphs.

This handy PowerPoint presentation introduces the concept of sentence diagramming. It includes a number of examples.

This site from the Capital Community College helps with paragraph development and topic sentences.

In this quiz, students read the sentence, determine the function of the group of words in all capitals and select the correct answer. Java is required.

An exercise where students combine two or three sentences into one sentence containing only one independent clause. When finished, students can check their answers by comparing them to the suggested combination.

This resource explains importance of the agreement of elements in sentences and covers agreement of nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, and adverbs. Exercises included. L.11-12.3a Syntax

Work through nine links to videos, images, and graphic organizers to learn about persuasive writing.