LESSON PLAN – 7th Grade Writing

SAN CARLOS MIDDLE SCHOOL

Date: May 03, 2022 (Week 1)

Name of the teacher: MAYDAFE CHERRYL CLARK
Topic: Using Transition Words
I DO ACTIVITY

Objective: (Standard Alignment) : CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.7.3.C

Use a variety of transition words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence and signal shifts from one
time frame or setting to another.
Sub – Objective:
Learning Expectation: We can use the transition words by providing logical organization, improving the
connections between thoughts in application of transitional expressions in writing sentences or paragraph.
Prior Knowledge:
a. Sequential signal words
b. Connecting words
Vocabulary words:

 Logical - characterized by or capable of clear, sound reasoning.

 Transition - the process or a period of changing from one state or condition to another.

o Essential Question: Why is transition words are important in writing?

Lesson Presentation:
Spring board:
a. Live Dashboard (5 item QUIZZIZ)
https://quizizz.com/join?gc=604285

Video presentation: Watch the video. What are transition words? Explain the importance of using transition
expression in writing.

Explicit Instruction:

 Watch the lesson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4VzIv4iWq0 or edpuzzle.

 Ask students to take notes or pay attention to the different transition words.
 After the lesson, ask:
 o Where do we find transitional words in sentences?
o What would it be like to read a text or speak to someone who didn't use transitions?

Note: The types of transitions available to you are as diverse as the circumstances in which you
need to use them. A transition can be a single word, a phrase, a sentence, or an entire paragraph.

How can you tell whether you need to work on your transitions? Choppy, jumpy..

Transitions provide the reader with directions for how to piece together your ideas into a logically
coherent argument. Transitions are not just verbal decorations that embellish your paper by making
it sound or read better. They are words with particular meanings that tell the reader to think and
react in a particular way to your ideas. In providing the reader with these important cues, transitions
help readers understand the logic of how your ideas fit together.

Presentation:

a. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4VzIv4iWq0

We do: Activity/Engagement

a. Use Edpuzzle for the engagement activity:

Open the Google classroom and find in the Stream or in the Classroom the Engagement
activity for Transition Words in Writing
Click the link below to follow:
https://edpuzzle.com/media/626b17622507a342cb14b45d
b. Open Edpuzzle apps for another engagement activity about the logical organization of
transition words.
https://edpuzzle.com/media/626bfa5ad6c38242a1739eb9

You Do: EXIT TICKETS

Independent Practice:
Advance: Choose transition words from the paragraph to use in your own paragraph.
https://easel.teacherspayteachers.com/students?code=YGX5VH&utm_campaign=direct
Fair: Underline or highlight the transition words in this paragraph
https://easel.teacherspayteachers.com/activities/36301930/
preview#01G246JYKMCXS77A4JHW8EH1RX
Struggling:
Online activities: Multiple Choice.
https://easel.teacherspayteachers.com/assessments/run/01G246E5AJ4KQT4NAWPYH3CGP1

Summary:/recapitulations: Transitions help you to achieve these goals by establishing logical connections
between sentences, paragraphs, and sections of your papers. In other words, transitions tell readers what to do with
the information you present to them. Whether single words, quick phrases, or full sentences, they function as signs
that tell readers how to think about, organize, and react to old and new ideas as they read through what you have
written.
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