Time Order Transition Words

Print the page and read the directions with your child: Use the word bank to fill in each blank. Use each word one time. Then write about your own bedtime routine. When they finish, check the work together with the answer key.

A note explains that time order words like first, next and finally tell the order that things happen. A paragraph about Sam's morning routine has six blanks to fill from a word bank: first, next, after that, meanwhile, later and finally. A Your turn box asks for three sentences about a bedtime routine using first, next and finally. The directions on the page read: Use the word bank to fill in each blank. Use each word one time. Then write about your own bedtime routine. An answer key is included.

Yes, both. We made it for 3rd Grade writing topics, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with introductions, conclusions and transitions. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

A hook is a first sentence that makes readers want to read more. A question hook asks the reader something, like "Did you know a magnet can pick up a paper clip without touching it?" The hook sheet gives an example and asks for question hooks.

A conclusion ends a paragraph by telling the main idea again in new words, and it can leave the reader with a final thought. The conclusion sheet gives a paragraph and a checklist.

Linking words such as and, but, so and because join two ideas in one sentence. The linking words sheet asks students to join pairs of sentences with a word from a bank (W.3.1.C).

Yes. All four sheets include a key with a marking guide and model answers.

Third graders write opinion pieces with linked reasons (CCSS W.3.1), informative texts that group facts (W.3.2) and narratives with dialogue and description (W.3.3). They also plan, revise and edit their work (W.3.5) and use capitals, commas and quotation marks correctly (L.3.2).

Teach a hook for the first sentence, like a question to the reader, and a conclusion that restates the main idea in new words. The hook and conclusion sheets give an example and a checklist.

22 of the 36 sheets include an answer key with a marking guide or a model response, among them the 4 friendly letter pages. The 14 two-page reflective writing and reading response sheets have no key, since each student writes about their own life or book.