Lesson Plan
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 young scholars will write narratives to recount a short sequence of events, they will include...
Lesson Plan
The Balanced Literacy Diet

The Balanced Literacy Diet: Interactive Story Retelling

For Teachers Pre-K - K Standards
The goal of Interactive Story Retelling: Encouraging Retelling with Picture Supports is to build early comprehension skills and promote oral expression by having students sequence the events in a story using pictures and then retell the...
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Frog and Toad Are Friends the Story

For Teachers 1st
During this lesson, 1st graders will sequence events in "Frog and Toad Are Friends" by Arnold Lobel, describe the problem and solution, and describe the characters.
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Sequencing With "A Big Fish for Max"

For Teachers 1st Standards
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.
Lesson Plan
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...
Handout
Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Major Events

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
Learn how writers use details to describe major events in a story.
Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Nar Text Structure: Story Sequence Organizer [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
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.
Activity
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Arctic Story Puzzles

For Students 3rd - 8th
Construct a story about the Inuit or the polar bear from a series of pictures that can be put together in a sequence.
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Modern Little Red Riding Hood: Video

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
As you watch this updated story of Little Red Riding Hood, notice the traits, motivations, and feelings of the characters in the story. Check out the additional activities including Guided viewing. Students describe characters in a story...
Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Sequence Kindergarten Unit: Beginning and End

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This webiste provides a lesson in which students identify and describe the beginning and end of a fiction story. Lesson includes ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice and...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: The Green Dog Sequencing Story Events

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This one page flipchart is to be used specifically with the novel The Green Dog by Suzanne Fisher Staples. The teacher and/or learner will put the story events in the correct order.
Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Sequence Kindergarten Unit

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to recognize the beginning and ending of a story and use word clues to put story events into the correct sequence. Lessons are based on the...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Graphic Organizer Sequence

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This graphic organizer provides a framework for students to analyze the sequence of events in a story or historical event.
Lesson Plan
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...
eBook
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Little Red Riding Hood: Text

For Students 3rd - 4th
This is an adaptation of the fairy tale "Little Red Riding Hood" in text format.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: The Little Red Ant

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] The Little Red Ant and The Great Big Crumb is a story in the third grade Scholastic Literacy Series. This flipchart contains activities on order of events, cause/effect, vocabulary, and plot sequencing.
Lesson Plan
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.
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Buttons and the Blue Glove

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a cat named Buttons who goes on an adventure with his little girl's blue glove. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Other

Lulu's Games: The Right Order: School Day

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Put four pictures in the correct sequence to see a story of a girl waking up and going to school.
Activity
Other

Lulu's Games: The Right Order: Ready for School

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Put four pictures in the correct sequence to see a story of a boy getting ready for school.
Activity
Other

Lulu's Games: The Right Order: Travel

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Put five pictures in the correct sequence to see a story of a family going on vacation.
Activity
Scholastic

Scholastic: Clifford the Big Red Dog: School

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Put five pictures in the correct order to tell a story about Clifford the Big Red Dog.
Activity
Other

Lulu's Games: The Right Order: Christmas Tree

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Put three pictures in the correct sequence in order to see a story of a family getting a Christmas tree.
Activity
Other

Lulu's Games: The Right Order: Camping

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Put five pictures in the correct sequence in order to see a story of two children camping and hiking.