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Students identify and visually represent important events in the beginning, middle, and end of a story. They arrange the pictures in sequential order. Students verbalize details while they retell their story idea to friends and family with the aid of a story stick similar to those used by the Sioux.

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stories, numbers middle

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Beginning, end, events, middle, story, math
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1st - 12th
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Math
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