Linking Words and Phrases Practice

5th Grade ELAWriting3 pages

About this worksheet

Students finish sentences that start with "As a result," "especially when," and "For example," then use comparison frames and write a short paragraph. The content comes from other 5th grade subjects: colonists taxed without representation, predators in an ecosystem, water changing state, two planets, a desert and a rainforest, and travel in the 1800s. The 3-page sheet targets W.5.2.c. The answer key gives exemplar responses and a note to accept any logical, accurate completion.

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Curriculum objectives covered

W.5.2.c

“Link ideas within and across categories of information using words, phrases, and clauses (e.g., in contrast, especially).”

Every section. Students link ideas with phrases like "in contrast" and "as a result," and Question 6 links sentences across a whole paragraph.

What's inside this worksheet

Providing Evidence and Results

Three sentence stems to complete. Stem 1 is about colonists angry at British taxes, stem 2 about predators, and stem 3 about water changing state with temperature.

Comparing and Contrasting

Students fill two frames: one that begins "Although ___ and ___ are both planets" and a desert description followed by "in contrast, a rainforest."

Connecting a Paragraph

A box lists in contrast, for example, as a result, and especially. After a topic sentence about how travel changed in the 1800s, students write three sentences and start at least two with a phrase from the box.

How teachers use it

Cross-curricular

Run this after your American Revolution or ecosystems lessons. Students who lack the facts for stems 1 and 2 get stuck, and the linking phrase is not the problem.

Read it aloud

Students often write a fragment after "especially when." Have them read the whole sentence aloud to hear whether it finishes the thought.

Paragraph check

For Question 6, ask students to underline the linking phrases they used. A quick scan shows who met the two-sentence rule.

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