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Other

The Grain Chain: What Happens Next? [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Put the steps for making bread in order.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Exploring Before, During, After Sequencing

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
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.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Buddies Create Power Point Stories

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
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...
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Buttons and the Blue Glove

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a cat named Buttons who goes on an adventure with his little girl's blue glove. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: A Day in Kindergarten

For Teachers Pre-K - K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a little girl named Keesha's day in kindergarten. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: What Happened Next?

For Teachers 5th Standards
In this lesson, 5th graders will read informational text articles. Then students place sentences from the articles into chronological order.
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Read Works

Read Works: Sequence 1st Grade Unit

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This site provides a series of three lesson plans designed to teach young scholars to recognize and use word clues to put story events into the correct sequence and retell the story accordingly. Lessons...
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Read Works

Read Works: Sequence 3rd Grade Unit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This website provides a series of two lesson plans designed to teach students to create a graphic organizer showing the sequence of events in a fiction text. The lessons include ideas for direct...
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Read Works

Read Works: Sequence 2nd Grade Unit: Flashback Sequence

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson plan helps learners identify the sequence of events in a story with flashback. The lesson includes ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice and utilizes the book...
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Read Works

Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Sequence

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students 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...
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Read Works

Read Works: Fourth Grade: Three Lesson Unit: Sequence

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[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...
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Read Works

Read Works: Sequence Kindergarten Unit: Sequence Clue Words

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teach students to identify the sequence of a story by looking at transitional words such as "first" and "then" in the book Henry and Mudge: The First Book of Their Adventures by Cynthia Rylant. Learning...
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Read Works

Read Works: Sequence Kindergarten Unit: Order of Events

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students learn about putting events in order with a short text. Then they complete guided and independent sequencing activities with The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. Short texts and handouts...
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Graphic
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Sequence of Events Chart

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A printable graphic organizer to help students sequence events and recognize cause and effect relationships within a story. Directions on how to use this graphic organizer as well as lists of teaching ideas and related resources are also...
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Arctic Story Puzzles

For Students 3rd - 8th
Construct a story about the Inuit or the polar bear from a series of pictures that can be put together in a sequence.
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Other

Wisewire: Grades 9 10 Playlist: Analyze How an Author Unfolds an Argument

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an example of how to analyze how an author unfolds an argument. It provides an example and links to use for practice. RI.9-10.3 author unfolds
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Website
Other

Thoughtful Learning: ccss.ela literacy.w.7.3.a

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Pick and choose from these lessons and units that focus on narrative writing. Specifically, how to establish a context and point of view, introduce characters, and organize an event sequence.
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Education.com

Education.com: Draw the Story

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will use their imagination to complete the story. How will it begin? How will it end? Great lesson for practicing sequencing.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The Grouchy Ladybug

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
The students 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.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Sequence Flower Reports

For Teachers 3rd - 4th Standards
This is a hands-on book report project. It will be an extension activity that occurs after the reading of the stories The Secret Gardens and/ or The Gardener. Paper Flowers will be designed and put together by each student. Story events...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Get Yourself in Order!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A lesson that requires students to act out a sequence of events in the form of improvisation. Students learn to improvise and identify the sequence of events in a dramatization.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Yum Yum Applesauce

For Teachers K
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!
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Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Reviewing Sequence of Events

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
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.
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Other

Lulu's Games: The Right Order: Christmas Tree

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Put three pictures in the correct sequence in order to see a story of a family getting a Christmas tree.