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Order of Events

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Read the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar and put the events of the story in order. Each event is written on a sentence strip and while the teacher reads, listeners can arrange the strips inthe correct order. After reading, reshuffle the strips and try to reconstruct the order from memory. Practice sequencing with this classic story.

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the very hungry caterpillar, eric carle, stories, sequence of events, sequencing

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beginning to end, cut out sentences, order of events, story, the very hungry caterpillar, english language arts
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Grade
1st - 2nd
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Resource Type
Lesson Plans
Audience
For Teacher Use
Duration
1 hr
Instructional Strategies
Collaborative Learning
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Text-to-Speech
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Common Core

RL.K.3

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