USING SEQUENCE WORDS
AND TRANSITION WORDS
FLUENCY IN WRITING
Just like a river is always flowing from one place
to another, your writing needs to FLOW.
Instead of being made from water, your writing
is made from WORDS. Your words, and the
sentences they make, need to help your ideas
& information flow from one to another.
Every river is different, as is every
piece of writing. The pace may be fast
or slow or a combination of the two.
Some pieces will have a speedy, almost frenetic,
pace and others will meander, taking the
reader through many emotional turns.
But no matter what the pace or topic,
a writer’s goal is to create
FLUENCY –
A NATURAL FLOW FROM IDEA
TO IDEA, SENTENCE TO
SENTENCE.
Sequence & Transition Words act as
STEPPING STONES for your reader, to
clearly lead them from one thought to
another in logical order
BUILD BRIDGES for your
reader between paragraphs – don’t
leave your reader hanging, asking,
“Huh? How did I get here?”
PRACTICE BRIDGE BUILDING
1. With your partner, write two paragraphs with a
BRIDGE connecting one paragraph to the next.
2. The first paragraph should describe a character
standing on the steps of a haunted house at midnight
on Halloween.
3. The second paragraph should describe the character
being INSIDE the house, after entering through the
front door.
4. CONNECT THE TWO PARAGRAPHS WITH A BRIDGE
BETWEEN THE TWO.