Transitions and Writing Cohesion Lab

Students sort transitions by job, fill gaps in a passage, reorder scrambled paragraphs and replace vague words.

Grades 4–12Virtual lab · 5 stations1 student per deviceNo student loginsWorks offline

Try it free: the demo opens the Start page and Station 1 right in your browser. No sign-up needed.

Virtual labs are sold separately and aren’t part of the All-Access licenses.

Grade versions included

Grades 4–5: Time-order and cause words, a class garden story, sentence order and word upgrades
Grades 6–8: Seven transition functions, an informational article, a lab report precision edit
Grades 9–12: Concession and qualification, mapping argument moves, a logic and diction audit

Transition functions, cohesion, logical order, precise and concise word choice, sentence combining, concession and rebuttal, argument structure

OAS Standard 2: Reading and Writing Process; Standard 5: Language

Common Core: W.1 · W.2 · W.3 · L.3

Open the game file in any web browser: Chromebooks, laptops or your smartboard. No accounts, no student logins and no internet needed once it's downloaded.
The download has a separate file for each grade band. Open the one that fits your class.
Each student types their name on the Start page, then works through the stations in order. Each station has a prediction, a hands-on activity, a data table or log that fills in as they work and a check question.
Students finish with a printable lab report (print or save as PDF). The Teacher Notes include the standards, a full answer key and a reset button for shared devices.
Each purchase includes the lab files and a one-page Quick Start guide.