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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Sequence of Events Chart

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Flow Charts for Sequencing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a graphic organizer. Students will be able to write a sequence of events more efficiently by using this tool.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Sequencing a Strategy to Succeed at Reading Comprehension

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
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...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Buddies Create Power Point Stories

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
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...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Draw a Story: Stepping From Pictures to Writing

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Help young young scholars move from drawing pictures into writing simple stories. Good plan for having students put pictures in sequential order and teaching them about sequential order.
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Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Sequence of Events

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
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...
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SMART Technologies

Smart: Reviewing Sequence of Events

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
Students will identify time-order words in order to comprehend passages, place events in sequential order on a time line, and use a flow chart to organize their thoughts for writing in this interactive SMART whiteboard activity.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Exploring Before, During, After Sequencing

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
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.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Tie It Up With Transition Words to Write a Story!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Read, write, and present a digital narrative with transition words to help us put the events in order! After modeling the lesson, groups of learners will write narratives to recount a short sequence of events, they will include details...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Harcourt: School Publishers: Test Tutor: Sequence

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
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.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Story Writing With Arthur

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This series of 12 downloadable activities teach students some basics of story writing, using books or videos from the PBS "Arthur" series as a springboard. Activities include creating story maps, asking questions about characters and...
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SMART Technologies

Smart: Sequence Putting Things in Order

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will practice putting things in order, learn about sequence words, and use sequence words to produce a writing assignment within this interactive SMART whiteboard lesson.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writing a Personal Narrative [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
A middle school student model of personal narrative writing. Includes a good writing style, examples, and very good notes and annotations as helpful aids for writing success. Points out the introduction, sequence of events and how they...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: W.4.4: Produce Clear Writing to Task, Purpose, Audience

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
Links to 89 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.4.4: Use a variety of transitional words and phrases to manage the sequence of events.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Yum Yum Applesauce

For Teachers K
Kindergarteners write for many purposes. In this lesson, kindergarteners learn that it is important to include recipe steps so the applesauce comes out just right!
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Integrating Language Arts: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

For Teachers K - 1st
This lesson integrates reading, writing, listening, and speaking to boost students' comprehension skills. Students explore Laura Joffe Numeroff 's If You Give a Mouse a Cookie using a variety of techniques, beginning with a picture walk...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Writing a Roundabout Story

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson plan, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, by Laura Numeroff, is used as a mentor text to highlight the trait of organization. The content focus of the lesson is to highlight that authors' story structures can be imitated. Story...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Sequence a Story [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and write the main events of the story on sentence strips. Materials are included.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix:"oh, That's Good!" "No, That's Bad!"

For Teachers 1st - 5th
How can something that is good, be bad and something that is bad, be good? Inspired by the pattern and concept in Margery Cuyler's picture book That's Good! That's Bad!, students will brainstorm a sequence of related events as the story...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Popular Culture: Expository Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on expository writing including definitions, terms, sample expository essays, sequencing events into chonological order, and links to information about how to write expository essays.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Creative Writing Through Wordless Picture Books

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Need help planning ways to creatively teach your students chronological order? Here's a great place to start. While the site is specifically geared toward the middle school student, it is a teaching idea which could easily be adapted for...
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Other

Write Design: Graphic Organizers: Sequence

For Students 9th - 10th
Lists and describes several types of graphic organizers which fall under the "sequence" mold, including a ranking table, continuum scale, cycle, bridging snapshots, series of events chain, and a problem/solution outline.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: W.3.3: Write Narratives to Develop Real or Imagined Experiences

For Students 3rd Standards
Links to 47 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.3.3: Write Narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
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South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All: Sequencing Using Comics

For Teachers 5th Standards
Fifth graders will use comics in order to discover the importance of sequence while writing narratives.