Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Grouchy Ladybug
The learners 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.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Reviewing Sequence of Events
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.
Read Works
Read Works: Fourth Grade: Three Lesson Unit: Sequence
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on sequencing where students use book Tell Me a Story, Mama by Angela Johnson to identify flashbacks and the text "Leaving Home" to arrange details into chronological order for a...
Read Works
Read Works: Sequence 1st Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] This site provides a series of three lesson plans designed to teach learners to recognize and use word clues to put story events into the correct sequence and retell the story accordingly. Lessons are...
Read Works
Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Sequence
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach learners 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...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Sequencing a Story
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...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Exploring Before, During, After Sequencing
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.
Quia
Quia: Sequence: Putting Things in Order
Using clue words, students are asked to number a list of events in order from 1-10 and then check answers. Students have up to three attempts to solve.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Harcourt: School Publishers: Test Tutor: Sequence
Students will increase their reading comprehension skills and understanding of story sequence by reading a passage of text and then answering questions about the order of events.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Sequence of Events
Practice putting pictures and story events in order after reading a short text in this online learning activity.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Adaptation of the Boy Who Cried "Wolf"
After sharing the story of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf," students will be introduced to the story of "Leo the Longhorn." Students will act out the nattive of "Leo the Longhorn" by paying close attention to the skill of sequencing.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Sequencing With "A Big Fish for Max"
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.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Sequence
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.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Sequence of Events
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...
Read Works
Read Works: Sequence Kindergarten Unit
[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...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Move Over: A Sequencing Lesson
During this instructional activity students will learn about the sequencing of stories. Students will have the opportunity to retell stories using sequencing words they learn. They will also navigate an Internet site to reinforce the...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: The Green Dog Sequencing Story Events
[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.
University of California
Ucmp: Sequencing Time
Lesson plan in which students place events in sequence, comparing their life to the history of the Earth.
Quia
Quia: Doing the Dishes
In this game, students are to read all nine steps to making homemade pizza and then number them in chronological order to reveal a hidden picture. Java is required.
Quia
Quia: Polygon Quiz
In this game, students are to number the steps for making cookies in chronological order to reveal a hidden picture.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Funny Sequence
After a discussion and work on sequence, students will apply this knowledge to sequencing comic strips through group work.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Nar Text Structure: Story Sequence Organizer [Pdf]
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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Modern Little Red Riding Hood: Video
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...
SMART Technologies
Smart: Sequence Putting Things in Order
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.