After reading any short informational or fictional text, ask your class to analyze the important events. They note down three important events on a short timeline, describing the events with either words or drawings. After this, pupils select the most important event an explain why it is significant.

Concepts

textual evidence, evidence, inferences, sequence of events, sequencing

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Additional Tags

sequencing, story sequence, event sequence, order of events, inference, textual evidence, english language arts

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Pros

• Since there are only three events possible, learners will have to choose carefully and only pick the most important aspects of a text

Cons

• While the task does require analysis and explanation, the worksheet is very simple overall and could be improved upon
• Many learners will need additional scaffolding to complete the page; consider sentence frames or partner work

Common Core

RL.4.1 RL.5.1 RI.4.1 RI.5.1 RL.6.1 RL.7.1 RL.8.1 RI.6.1 RI.7.1 RI.8.1