Think Then Write Workbook: Volume 3 - Transitions, Biographies and Short Reports

Think, Then Write Workbook: Volume 3 is an explicit writing program featuring transitions, biographies and short reports.

Our no-prep 70+ page workbook is designed to support students of all years/grades to learn how to:

1. use transitions to link our ideas and sentences together;
2. write short biographies; and
3. write multi-paragraph reports about movies, computer games and books. 

(1) Transitions

We will learn to use “transitions” to link our sentences together. In this workbook, students will learn how to use and practice:

• time and sequence transitions to explain events/steps;
• cause and effect transitions;
• transitions to give examples;
• transitions to give emphasis to a point;
• contrast transitions to change direction; and
• transitions to finish a point.

(2) Biographies

We have prepared 5 short reading passages about famous people (Louis Braille, Walt Disney, Beatrix Potter, Tina Turner, Serena Williams), each with 7 or 8 questions probing comprehension at different levels of abstraction.

The resource also includes writing assignments for 5 different famous people (Helen Keller, George Lucas, J.K. Rowling, Taylor Swift/ BTS/Bruno Mars, and Mr Beast/Pewdiepie) so students can practice writing short reports.

The workbook is designed to support students to write short multi-paragraph reports, using a scaffold or outline to plan the project. The 5 reading comprehension passages are fully worked examples that students can use as models for their own work.

(3) Multi-paragraph reports

The workbook is also designed to support students to write short multi-paragraph reports, using a scaffold or outline to plan the project, as well as fully worked examples they can use as models for their own work. Included in this workbook are outlines for:

• a movie review;
• a video/computer game review; and
• a book report on a work of fiction.