Persuasive words and phrases

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Transitions, or linking terms, bring order and direction to persuasive writing. Third grade, fourth grade, and fifth grade students can choose from a list like this - or learn to tell how, when, or where with prepositional phrases. Visit Enjoy-Teaching.com to learn more.

4th Grade

Transition Words and Phrases, Detailed List Comparision Equally As with Likewise In the same way Similarly Like Of contrast Despite this In comparison Persuasion Of course Clearly Evidently Surely Indeed Undoubtedly Decidedly Certainly For this reason illustration For example Such as For instance Such as In other words An instance As revealed by To show that In the case of Opinion I think I believe As far as I know It seems likely In my experience I believe that As for me, I think If I am…

When learning a language it can be easy to use one sentence after another without linking relevant information together but transition words help you to avoid

Persuasive Words and Phrases #StartWritingNow!

Different Ways to Say I Think in English I believe… I would say… I consider… To me… From my point of view… It is my view… It’s my belief that… I honestly believe that… To my way of thinking… I feel… In my opinion… I assume… In my point of view… If you ask me… As far as I can tell… To my mind… As far as I’m concerned… The way I see things is that… As I see it… It seems to me that…

Do you say “I think” too much? Here are some good alternatives:

Check out this great lesson I found on Cleverbean. Learning Intention: Using high modality words and phrases in a persuasive text to convince my reader.