Connectives and Transition Signals in Writing | Charts & Activities
Connectives and transition signals make a real difference in student writing. If you teach adult ESL writing, you've probably seen how a student's essay can have strong ideas that just...sit there next to each other. They lack signals telling the reader how one thought connects to the next. That's usually a connectives and transition signals problem, not a content problem.
(There was a time I was convinced that if I heard "and after that" ONE MORE TIME...) If your adult ESL students also tend to reach for the same few connectives over and over, this writing pack gives them more range. It covers connectives and transition signals that support clearer, more coherent writing and speaking.
The cards especially go beyond the most common connectives, covering a wider range of academic connectors. Your students will be practicing with connectives showing everything from causal relationships to contrasting ideas to help them eventually give their own writing a natural flow instead of that repetitive, broken-record feel.
WHAT'S INSIDE:
charts & activities
- ✅ a two-page connectives & transition signals reference chart, designed to print front and back to save paper.
- ✅ sentence cloze exercise with answer key
- ✅ teacher's instructions for three interactive games/activities
- ✅ game page, available in color and black & white
- ✅ sorting cards (8 pages)
- ✅ sorting labels (2 pages)
- ✅ connective/transition signal cards (8 pages), organized by category
task cards
- ✅ 9 pages of task cards, totaling 36 cards with four per page
- ✅ convenient answer sheets designed to save paper with half-page formats + an answer key for quick and easy grading
THIS WAS CREATED FOR ADULT ESL STUDENTS
I wrote everything in this to appeal to adults, not their kids. You won't find any cartoonish clipart or children's content.
