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Tomas and the Library Lady
Students practice read aloud comprehension strategies. In this literacy comprehension lesson, students listen to Tomas and the Library Lady, stopping to discuss with a partner aspects of the story suggested by the teacher. Students make...
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Romeo and Juliet
An engaging video featuring William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is accompanied by six activities designed to reinforce vocabulary, story elements, and comprehension. Scholars match words to pictures, place events in sequential order,...
E Reading Worksheets
Summarization and Narrative Sequence
Readers are asked to identify seven important events in a narrative and then to explain why these events are key to the story. To conclude the activity, kids craft a summary using their list.
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Sequencing
Second graders practice their ability to sequence different events. Using a story, they put the events of a chapter book into order by cutting the events out and pasting them on a separate piece of paper. As a class, they repeat a...
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Story Building: Nasreddin and the Beggar
In this story building worksheet, students build a story by choosing one of three sentences, using context clues to put the events of the story in order.
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Which Way? Ordering Story Events
For this order of events worksheet, students read a story about a boy joining a baseball team the correctly order a series of given events from the story. Worksheet contains a link to additional activities.
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Story Sequence - Wrapping a Present
In this sequence of events learning exercise, students number the four pictures in order from one to four to illustrate the sequence of wrapping a present.
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Joseph Had a Little Overcoat
Spruce up a class reading of the children's book Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback with this fun series of activities. Starting with a list of reading comprehension questions and key vocabulary to address during a teacher...
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Pumpkin Carving Sequencer
Pupils arrange illustrations in sequential order. In this text organization lesson, students access a webpage where they must follow the instructions to learn about the steps of pumpkin carving. Pupils then click and drag illustrations...
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A Weave of Woods
Focus on vocabulary, comprehension, and analysis while reading A Weave of Woods, a colorful picture book by Robert D. San Souci. Young learners use worksheets to preview, predict, practice paraphrasing, and make comparisons. The...
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Total English Upper Intermediate: Sequencing Events
In this sequencing events worksheet, students complete 6 sentence starters and write a story using one of 3 provided titles. In small groups students share their work.
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Story Boards
Students devise story boards to sequence the main events in a story. They draw a picture that demonstrates the main event in each chapter of a story and label it with a sentence.
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Writer's Workshop Mini-Lesson Plan- Story Sequencing
Students listen to a read aloud of Kevin Henkes, Owen, while listening for the beginning, middle, and end. They listen as the teacher describes the need for story organization and write down the story sequence. Finally, they create a...
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Sequence Maker
In this story sequence worksheet, students read five sentences about getting up in the morning that are out of order. Students number them in the correct order and then write a paragraph using the sentences.
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To Describe and Sequence Key Events
Learning how to sequence events in a story is an important skill. Learners use the Indian legend, "The Birth of the Rainbow" in order to gain practice with this important skill. After reading the legend together, they use sequence words...
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Primary Sources and Protagonists: A Native American Literature Unit
Introduce your middle schoolers to the lives of past Native Americans. First, learners work together to put photographs in a sequence. Then, using their sequence, they create stories to share with the whole class. No matter how old your...
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Stamp Stories of Westward Expansion
What a fantastic project idea for discussing not only the history of America's expansion into the West, but for reviewing any major unit of history in your class. Pupils build stamp collections to visually represent themes of the...
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Molly Pitcher -- "Out of Many, One"
Students research, brainstorm and analyze the events that lead up to the Revolutionary War. They critique a piece of artwork depicting a scene from the Revolutionary War. Each major battle is plotted on a map to show a visual...
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The Final Copy
Write short stories in which events are presented in logical order, point of view is clear, theme and characters are developed. Middle schoolers also work on sensory language, concrete language and/or dialogue. They establish their...
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Episodic Writing Using Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
Help your middle-schoolers expand their writing skills with this lesson on episodic writing, which focuses on story details, idea development, and organization. After reading "The Eighth Picture: End of Summer" from Patricia Reilly...
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Sequencing a Story - The Three Little Pigs
In this sequencing worksheet set, students use cut up portions of the story of "The Three Little Pigs" to either categorize events from the beginning, middle and end, or to retell the story it the proper order. The teacher cuts out and...
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Story Sequence: Chrysanthemum
For this story sequence worksheet, students write the events in the beginning, middle and end of the book Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes. There are three boxes to list or draw events.
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Incy Wincy Spider Sequencing
In these story sequencing worksheets, students cut out the sections of the Incy Wincy Spider story. Students put the story in the correct sequence.
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Story Sequencing Lesson Plans That Promote Creativity
Explore new ways to enhance students' comprehension skills with creative story sequencing lesson plans.