Transitions Lesson

Transitions and Parallelism

Transitions

Open Ended

What are some transition words that you know? (List 3)

What are transitions and what are they for?

• Transitions are words writers use to help connect their ideas together and to move from one idea to the next

• Transitions help the reader understand the relationship between phrases, sentences, and paragraphs

• They help readers understand the writer's thinking

Multiple Choice

Which is the transition?

I bumped the glass of milk. As a result, milk spilt all over the table.

• I bumped the glass of milk

• As a result

• milk spilt all over the table

Multiple Choice

Which is the transition?

They were very smart. They won the spelling bee, for instance.

• They were very smart

• They won the spelling bee

• for instance

Multiple Choice

Which is the transition?

She was very funny, because she used to be a clown.

• She was very funny

• because

• she used to be a clown

Parallelism

Poll

What is your understanding level of parallelism?

• Know-it-all

• Maybe think I've heard of it

• What's that?

What is parallelism and why do we use it?

• Parallelism is a type of figurative language (yes, we will continue to come back to figurative language)

• Gives the writing or speech a sense of rhythm

• Can help emphasize or separate a point out from the rest of the piece

• Usually uses some type of conjunction (but, so, and, yet...)

Multiple Select

Check all the examples of parallelism

• I really like hot chocolate and eating pizza

• I love to swim, to dance, and to run.

• "We make a living by what we get, we make a living by what we give"

Open Ended

Wrap Up: Why do we use transitions in our writing?

Open Ended

Wrap Up:

Give me an example of parallelism