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...

Build sequencing skills by looking at transition words like first, next, then, and finally. Read four short paragraphs and use the transition clues to put the events in the correct order. Then use these words while typing an original...

Students will identify time-order words in order to comprehend passages, place events in sequential order on a time line, and use a flow chart to organize their thoughts for writing in this interactive SMART whiteboard activity.

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...

From Read-Write-Think, here is a three-day lesson plan in which a class collaborates to produce a book, focusing on carving a jack-o-lantern. The emphasis is on teaching the skill of sequencing events.

Students will practice putting things in order, learn about sequence words, and use sequence words to produce a writing assignment within this interactive SMART whiteboard lesson.

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...

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

Kindergarteners write for many purposes. In this lesson, kindergarteners learn that it is important to include recipe steps so the applesauce comes out just right!

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...

Links to 89 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.4.4: Use a variety of transitional words and phrases to manage the sequence of events.

In this lesson plan, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, by Laura Numeroff, is used as a mentor text to highlight the trait of organization. The content focus of the lesson plan is to highlight that authors' story structures can be imitated....

How can something that is good, be bad and something that is bad, be good? Inspired by the pattern and concept in Margery Cuyler's picture book That's Good! That's Bad!, students will brainstorm a sequence of related events as the story...

Fifth graders will use comics in order to discover the importance of sequence while writing narratives.

A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and write the main events of the story on sentence strips. Materials are included.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of worksheets to reinforce the skill of writing to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a...

Links to 2 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.3.3.b: Write Narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.

This activity and discussion guide uses the book "Picture Day Perfect" to teach multiple common core state standards for language arts. Included in this lesson plan are discussion questions, a craft project, printable worksheets, and an...

Kindergarten students created this children's picture book. If You Take a Dog to the Beach was based on the commercial book series that includes If You Give a Moose a Muffin in which a sequence of events is kicked off by an initial...

An activity guide where students refer to the Texas Almanac, which is free to download, for information needed to complete assigned tasks. In this instructional activity, they read about important events through the 20th century in...

This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides ten short reading comprehension quizzes. Students will be able to write a sequence of events more efficiently by using this tool. All questions are skill-based and vary in levels of readability.

This lesson is an introduction to a unit on personal narratives including the characteristics of a personal narrative: tells a story, events are in chronological order, and it has characters, setting, and plot. Click next at the bottom...

In this lesson, 5th graders develop narratives by describing characters and creating a logical event sequence. This is part of a larger unit but can be taught separately.

This slideshow lesson focuses on organizational structures for narratives including a review of narratives and a list of possible organizational structure types: chronological or sequential order, climactic order, in media, and...