ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Sequence of Events Chart
A printable graphic organizer to help students sequence events and recognize cause and effect relationships within a story. Directions on how to use this graphic organizer as well as lists of teaching ideas and related resources are also...
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Read Write Think: Sequencing a Strategy to Succeed at Reading Comprehension
Contains plans for lessons that use the story of Paul Bunyan to teach about sequencing and order of events. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as...
Read Works
Read Works: Sequence 3rd Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] This website provides a series of two lesson plans designed to teach students to create a graphic organizer showing the sequence of events in a fiction text. The lessons include ideas for direct...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Identifying Sequence of Events Using Dr. Seuss
After listening to a reading of Dr. Seuss' Bartholomew and the Oobleck, students use graphic organizers and comic strips to practice sequencing. In a fun activity, small groups follow directions to make oobleck.
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Read Works: Sequence 2nd Grade Unit: Flashback Sequence
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson plan helps young scholars identify the sequence of events in a story with flashback. The lesson includes ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice and utilizes the...
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Read Works: Sequence 1st Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] This site provides a series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to recognize and use word clues to put story events into the correct sequence and retell the story accordingly. Lessons are...
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Read Works: Sequence Kindergarten Unit: Order of Events
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students learn about putting events in order with a short text. Then they complete guided and independent sequencing activities with The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. Short texts and handouts...
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Read Works: Sequence Kindergarten Unit: Sequence Clue Words
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teach students to identify the sequence of a story by looking at transitional words such as "first" and "then" in the book Henry and Mudge: The First Book of Their Adventures by Cynthia Rylant. Learning...
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Read Works: Fourth Grade: Three Lesson Unit: Sequence
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on sequencing where students use book Tell Me a Story, Mama by Angela Johnson to identify flashbacks and the text "Leaving Home" to arrange details into chronological order for a...
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Read Write Think: Buddies Create Power Point Stories
Contains plans for five lessons that ask students to create PowerPoint presentations about shared experiences like field trips or other activities. Students take pictures of what happen, and then explain the sequence of events in words...
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Sequence of Events
Build sequencing skills by looking at transition words like first, next, then, and finally. Read four short paragraphs and use the transition clues to put the events in the correct order. Then use these words while typing an original...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Exploring Before, During, After Sequencing
From Read-Write-Think, here is a three-day lesson plan in which a class collaborates to produce a book, focusing on carving a jack-o-lantern. The emphasis is on teaching the skill of sequencing events.
Read Works
Read Works: A Day in Kindergarten
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a little girl named Keesha's day in kindergarten. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Sequencing With "A Big Fish for Max"
Today students practice close reading as they look for evidence in the story so they can sequence the events for the beginning, middle, and end.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Grouchy Ladybug
The students will thoughtfully listen to a story read aloud and comprehend the sequence of events. This lesson will culminate units completed in science and math and will incorporate literature, science, and math.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Sequence of Events
Practice putting pictures and story events in order after reading a short text in this online learning activity.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Sequencing a Story
This single-period lesson reinforces the concept of story sequence. Teachers of this lesson will read aloud Enemy Pie, by Derek Munson, How to Make An Apple Pie and See the World by Marjorie Priceman. Then students will participate in...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Harcourt: School Publishers: Test Tutor: Sequence
Students will increase their reading comprehension skills and understanding of story sequence by reading a passage of text and then answering questions about the order of events.
Quia
Quia: Sequence: Putting Things in Order
Using clue words, students are asked to number a list of events in order from 1-10 and then check answers. Students have up to three attempts to solve.
Read Works
Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Sequence
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to retell and summarize a fiction story told in chronological order and a story told with flashback. Lessons are based on the books First Day...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Nar Text Structure: Story Sequence Organizer [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete graphic organizers to sequence the story and finally create an illustrated storyboard. Materials are included.
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Read Works: Colorful Crayons
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text giving facts about crayons and how they are made. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in sequencing.
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Read Works: Picking Up the Pieces
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the changes Katrina made in the Gulf Coast. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Viking Voyages
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about archaeologists who studied a Viking burial site. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.