Study Guide
University of South Florida

Fcat Express: Teaching Strategies (Reading) [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 4th Standards
Printable, fifty-five page PDF file of a staff development manual containing strategies for teaching reading. Includes chapters on vocabulary, main ideas and supporting details, author's purpose, chronological order, plot and conflict...
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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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University of South Florida

Fcat Express: Chronological Order Worksheet [Pdf]

For Students 1st - 8th Standards
This Chronological Order graphic organizer allows students to order events from text they are reading.
Website
PBS

Pbs: Kate Chopin Chronology

For Students 9th - 10th
This chronology provides key events in the life of the New Orleans author Kate Chopin (1850-1904).
Unit Plan
E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Patterns of Organization: Sequence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This learning module provides an explanation of the text structure for sequence. An explanation of the text structure for a sequence is provided, and chronological order text structure is demonstrated in a video tutorial lesson [1:24]
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Text Structure Worksheets

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides several assignments and graphic organizers related to identifying text structures. Analyzing the following types of text structures are provided: main idea and supporting details; cause and effect; chronological order;...
Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Sequence

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[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...
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Read Works

Read Works: Fourth Grade: Three Lesson Unit: Sequence

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[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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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Text Structure Practice 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This interactive activity provides 10 questions: each includes a reading passage which students read and select the patterns of organization used in each passage. RI.11-12.3 Text development
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Patterns of Organization

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This site discusses the topic of patterns of organization of paragraphs. Links with video content and further explanations about the following patterns of organization topics are provided: sequence, spatial, cause and effect; order of...
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Read Works

Read Works: Sequence Kindergarten Unit: Order of Events

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[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...
Unit Plan
University of South Florida

Fcat Reading Grade 4: Teaching Strategies

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This is a great resource that concentrates strategies and student activities in one place in an easy to use format, and can be navigated easily. Find great examples of probable passage, selective underlining, and semantic feature...
Handout
Library of Congress

Loc: Conservation Movement: Conservation Chronology 1908 1911

For Students 9th - 10th
Scroll to the year 1910 to read about events surrounding the Ballinger-Pinchot disagreement and its effects on conservation policies.
Website
Then Again

Then Again: Web Chron: World History Chronology: The 14th Amendment Is Ratified

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the 14th Amendment and its impact on the lives of African Americans during Reconstruction and later.
Website
Bartleby

Bartleby.com: The Golden Treasury of Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in Eng Lang

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Electronic text of Thomas Palgrave's book, "The Golden Treasury: Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language". There are several ways to find the poem that you want to study: by author, by title, by first line, and by...
eBook
Quia

Quia: Doing the Dishes

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
In this game, students are to read all nine steps to making homemade pizza and then number them in chronological order to reveal a hidden picture. Java is required.
Activity
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Between Repeated Catch Phrases

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
After reading Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst, students learn about writing in chronological order and about using a catch phrase throughout a text in order to unite ideas. Teacher...
Handout
Other

World of Escher: Escher Chronology

For Students 9th - 10th
Part of the World of Escher site, this page contains an in depth chronology of Escher's life.
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Memories, a Connection to the Past

For Teachers 3rd
This lesson engages students in reading comprehension strategies related to Elizabeth Howard's Aunt Flossie's Hats, Mem Fox's Wilford Gordon McDonald Partridge, Bill Martin's Knots On A Counting Rope, and Lucia Gonzales' The Bossy...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Sequencing a Story

For Teachers 3rd
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...
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Westward Expansion Westward Expansion Timeline

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A timeline of westward expansion in the United States. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Old Time Operations

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text and timeline about ancient dentistry and surgeries. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Other

Succession to the Presidency a Chronology

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is put together by a medical doctor with an interest in the line of succession to the presidency. Although not a constitutional expert, the author has documented source material and has read extensively in the field.
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Teachers.net

Teachers.net: The Gingerbread Man

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Introduce your primary students to retelling and sequencing skills. Will also help move your students to higher-level thinking which deals with characters, setting, and plot. Site offers one week's worth of lessons.