Follow up a class reading of the children's book Officer Buckle and Gloria with this simple sequence-of-events worksheet. Including pictures of six key moments from the story, young learners must first number them in the correct order and then cut them out and staple them together, creating a little book. Send this final product home with the students and have them summarize the story to their family. A good resource for teaching children about the structure of narrative writing.

Concepts

sequence of events, sequencing, reading comprehension, summaries, summarizing

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Additional Tags

sequence of events, reading comprehension, summary, summarize, order of events, sequencing, summarizing, officer buckle and gloria, english language arts

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Pros

• Each event from the story is described with a picture and short sentence
• Hands-on activity allows learners to physically manipulate the events of the story in order to determine the correct sequence
• Activity supports young readers with learning to summarize stories

Cons

• Requires a copy of the book Office Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann
• Some of the events are a little unclear and may be confusing for young learners

Common Core

RL.K.2 RL.1.2 RL.2.2 RL.2.5