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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.
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Other

Thoughtful Learning: ccss.ela literacy.w.7.3.a

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Pick and choose from these lessons and units that focus on narrative writing. Specifically, how to establish a context and point of view, introduce characters, and organize an event sequence.
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Education.com

Education.com: W.3.3 Worksheets: Write Narratives to Develop Real or Imagined

For Students 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 30 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard W.3.3: Write Narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using...
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Education.com

Education.com: Draw the Story

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will use their imagination to complete the story. How will it begin? How will it end? Great lesson for practicing sequencing.
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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Story Writing Frames [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Teachers will learn how to use story writing frames with their students. Teachers will learn how to implement story frames; measure progress with story frames; and find research to support using story frames. A reproducible story frame...
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Read Works

Read Works: Get Well Lance

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage includes the story of a girl who is writing a get well note to a classmate. This passage is intended as a guided passage. It contains questions regarding explicit information and drawing...
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Other

Cyberwriter: Narrative Writing

For Students K - 1st Standards
Cyberwriter gives narrative writing activities leveled for K-3rd grades and 4th-8th grades. A brief explanation about narrative writing is also on this page. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.3
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Education.com

Education.com: w.k.3 Worksheets

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of worksheets to reinforce the skill of writing to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a...
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Yale University

Yale University: Elements of the Short Story

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This unit from the Yale University on elements of the short story is designed to develop student comprehension skills, particularly making inferences and generalizing. It also involves students in reading a number of short stories to...
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EL Education

El Education: If You Take a Dog to the Beach

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Kindergarten students created this children's picture book. If You Take a Dog to the Beach was based on the commercial book series that includes If You Give a Moose a Muffin in which a sequence of events is kicked off by an initial...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Prewriting

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on prewriting using graphic organizers to fit the type of paper required. The video discusses the following graphic organizers: chain of events, cycle charts, looking at both sides of an issue, sequence ladder, Venn...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning:ninth Grade Lit and Comp: Introduction to Personal Narrative

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson is an introduction to a unit on personal narratives including the characteristics of a personal narrative: tells a story, events are in chronological order, and it has characters, setting, and plot. Click next at the bottom...