Students express feelings and learn about kindness. In this social skills instructional activity, students read Clifford Wants a Cookie and retell the story in sequence by using pictures. Students create a sweet treat for someone that...

Students are read the book "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" page by page and discuss their favorite types of cookies. They predict what they believe will happen next based on what has already happened in the story. They practice putting...

Students study sequencing while reading an Australian folk tale. In this sequencing lesson students read a folk tale using Reader's Theater and discuss what happened first, second and last. Students also create animal ears and noses...

Students read the story The Day Jimmy's Boa At the Wash and put the event boxes in order from the beginning to end of the story. For this sequencing lesson plan, students do this on the computer.

Learners participate in a lesson that focuses on the literature of Korea. "The Name Jar" is read by students to practice some essential reading skills. This would include the recognition of sequence in a story, characterization, and...

Students simulate an agriculture project. In this sequencing instructional activity, students observe their classroom pumpkin patch, make journal entries, and predict how the pumpkins will grow. They discuss as a class how to keep their...

Second graders will describe and illustrate how to build a snowman. In this sequencing lesson plan, 2nd graders will create a KidPix slideshow, with each page showing a picture and a sentence of how to build a snowman.

Fourth graders read the story Leaving Home and put the story events in chronological order. In this chronological order lesson plan, 4th graders use index cards and refer to the flashbacks in the story.

Second graders discuss sequential order. In this language arts lesson, 2nd graders practice retelling a story in sequential order. Students read a story and chart the events in sequential order.

There was an old lady who swallowed some leaves? Little learners read a new version of the old swallow story with a fall twist as they try to answer the big question; Why is that lady swallowing all that weird stuff? The teacher's guide...

Fourth graders examine the myths of King Arthur. They compare/contrast versions of the story, The Sword in the Stone, write a letter, identify and analyze characters, sequence events, and write observations and answer questions in a...

First graders use sequencing to recall and tell the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. They create a storyboard using pencils first and then crayons with six illustrations in sequence.

Students read "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" by Laura Joffee Numeroff with their teacher, discuss the concept of cause and effect, and create their own story boards for a class story.

Use comic strip format to help organize and sequence events in a story. The lesson here focuses on The Story of Jackie Robinson: Bravest Man in Baseball; however, this strategy could be used for summarizing any text. Pupils must choose...

Students sequence the main events of the story, The Gingerbread Man, into chronological order and rewrite the story changing characters and settings.

Students write their own books based on a life experience that they have had. In this life experiences lesson plan, students practice the writing process along with illustrating their book.

Students conduct an interview about their family with their parents and/or grandparents. They write a story based on interview facts and create a presentation for the class.

Students take part in group entertainment activities. In this circus lesson, students discuss their own memories of a circus and conduct several activities such as juggling scarves and creating balloon animals. Students discuss why...

Students read classic children's books. In this Dr. Seuss lesson, students read the Seuss classics The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs & Ham and Horton Hears a Who. Students create models based on story characters and discuss the...

Writers create an original mystery and have a chance to put it into movie format. The classic elements of a mystery must be present: the crime, the suspects, the motive, the solution and clues. Use iPhoto and Quicktime Movie to integrate...

Narrative essay writing is the focus of a series of exercises that model for learners how to not only read a narrative, but how to also examine the techniques fiction writers use to create a setting, develop their characters, represent...

Learners, assessing a variety of formatting tools with Microsoft Word, utilize a bank of vocabulary words to make a personal dictionary of nouns. They classify nouns for people, places, things and ideas and separate them into common and...

A reading of Peggy Parish's Amelia Bedelia launches a study of idioms. Groups then select several idioms, write the meaning of the expressions, draw or select images, and use GIMP or Photoshop to create an idiom book. 

After watching West of the West's documentary The Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island, class members imagine how Juana Maria/Karana may have felt about living alone on the island for 18 years and craft a blackout poem or a narrative in...