Essay Game 2Like houses, essays consist of several parts. Essays have a beginning, middle and an end...while houses have a foundation, rooms, and a roof. Each part serves a specific purpose. When building a house, your tools consist of items like wood and nails. When you build an essay, words are your tools. Sentences and paragraphs are then constructed from those words.
To move from room to room in a house, a person would use doors or stairs. In an essay, to move from one idea to another, a person uses transition words. What is a transition word?The game below shows some guidelines to consider for building a good essay from beginning to end. See if you can figure out how to organize the paragraphs within the house.
Directions: Build the house by clicking the paragraph descriptions with your mouse, dragging them to their appropriate position within the house, and then clicking once again to release...
