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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: 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...
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Read Works: Read Aloud Lesson: Digging Up Dinosaurs
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teachers will read "Digging Up Dinosaurs" using the close reading technique. Young scholars will use graphic organizers to summarize the steps necessary to collect, study, and build a dinosaur skeleton.
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Read Works: Plot 1st Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to identify problems and solutions in fiction text and to retell a story's problem and solution in sequence. Students learn to identify the plot...
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.
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.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Sequence a Story [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and write the main events of the story on sentence strips. Materials are included.
Learning Farm
Learning Farm: Ccs: Time, Sequence, and Cause/effect
An automated lesson will engage student's learning how to describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text. An introduction to the concept precedes a...
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...
Texas State Historical Association
Texas State Historical Association: Depression to Prosperity [Pdf]
An activity guide where students refer to the Texas Almanac, which is free to download, for information needed to complete assigned tasks. In this lesson, they read about important events through the 20th century in Texas, answer...
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.
Read Works
Read Works: Sequence Kindergarten Unit
[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...
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Read Works: Sequence Kindergarten Unit: Beginning and End
[Free Registration/Login Required] This webiste provides a instructional activity in which learners identify and describe the beginning and end of a fiction story. Lesson includes ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Tie It Up With Transition Words to Write a Story!
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...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Emergent Readers With and Emergent Reader
Students will sequence story events with the teacher and read an emergent reader in a guided setting. The chosen book, "Pilgrims and Wampanoag: Together They Were Better", has high use of sight words and high levels of picture support...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Fun With Seasons!
In this lesson students will learn about proper sequencing of events while also learning about our four seasons. We will be reading the book, The Apple Pie Tree and will be discussing each season prior to our reading. The students will...
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.
Utah Education Network
Uen: What Happened Next?
In this lesson, 5th graders will read informational text articles. Then students place sentences from the articles into chronological order.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Procedural Text: Recipe
A teacher created lesson plan to help students conquer how to make connections between directions in an effort to create something. This activity will have students sharing recipes and understanding why recipes should be followed in...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Aunt Chip and the Triple Creek Dam Affair
In this lesson, students will read and summarize the book by pages. After publishing, students will use their slides as sequencing exercises. This lesson plan can be adapted for any grade level or book.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Aunt Chip and the Triple Creek Dam Affair
In this activity, students will read and summarize the book by pages. After publishing, students will use their slides as sequencing exercises. This lesson plan can be adapted for any grade level or book.