Contains plans for lessons that use the story of Paul Bunyan to teach about sequencing and order of events. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as...

Contains plans for five lessons that ask students to create PowerPoint presentations about shared experiences like field trips or other activities. Students take pictures of what happen, and then explain the sequence of events in words...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson plan helps young scholars identify the sequence of events in a story with flashback. The lesson includes ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice and utilizes the...

[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...

Explore different ingredients, or elements, that go into stories and make them so much fun. Read the story, "Cinderella," and look at all the different pieces of the tale to see how they all fit together.

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...

Listen to an explanation of the story elements in Cinderella including exposition, characters, setting, sequence, conflict, climax, and resolution.

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.

Practice putting pictures and story events in order after reading a short text in this online learning activity.

[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...

Listen to an explanation about the series of events in Cinderella. Then look at some pictures where the story's events are all mixed up and put them in the correct order.

Help young students move from drawing pictures into writing simple stories. Good plan for having students put pictures in sequential order and teaching them about sequential order.

Read, write, and present a digital narrative with transition words to help us put the events in order! After modeling the lesson, groups of students will write narratives to recount a short sequence of events, they will include details...

The goal of Interactive Story Retelling: Encouraging Retelling with Picture Supports is to build early comprehension skills and promote oral expression by having learners sequence the events in a story using pictures and then retell the...

During this lesson, 1st graders will sequence events in "Frog and Toad Are Friends" by Arnold Lobel, describe the problem and solution, and describe the characters.

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.

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...

Learn how writers use details to describe major events in a story.

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.

Construct a story about the Inuit or the polar bear from a series of pictures that can be put together in a sequence.

As you watch this updated story of Little Red Riding Hood, notice the traits, motivations, and feelings of the characters in the story. Check out the additional activities including Guided viewing. Students describe characters in a story...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This webiste provides a lesson in which students identify and describe the beginning and end of a fiction story. Lesson includes ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice and...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This one page flipchart is to be used specifically with the novel The Green Dog by Suzanne Fisher Staples. The teacher and/or learner will put the story events in the correct order.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach young scholars 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...