Yale University
Yale University: Elements of the Short Story
This unit from the Yale University on elements of the short story is designed to develop student comprehension skills, particularly making inferences and generalizing. It also involves students in reading a number of short stories to...
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.
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: 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...
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...
Read Works
Read Works: Sequence Kindergarten Unit: Beginning and End
[Free Registration/Login Required] This webiste provides a lesson in which students identify and describe the beginning and end of a fiction story. Lesson includes ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice and...
Read Works
Read Works: Plot 1st Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to identify problems and solutions in fiction text and to retell a story's problem and solution in sequence. Students learn to identify the plot...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Retelling the Story
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart helps to teach students how to retell main events from a story and sequence events.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Memories, a Connection to the Past
This lesson engages students in reading comprehension strategies related to Elizabeth Howard's Aunt Flossie's Hats, Mem Fox's Wilford Gordon McDonald Partridge, Bill Martin's Knots On A Counting Rope, and Lucia Gonzales' The Bossy...
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...
Other
Lulu's Games: The Right Order: School Day
Put four pictures in the correct sequence to see a story of a girl waking up and going to school.
Other
Lulu's Games: The Right Order: Ready for School
Put four pictures in the correct sequence to see a story of a boy getting ready for school.
Other
Lulu's Games: The Right Order: Travel
Put five pictures in the correct sequence to see a story of a family going on vacation.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Grouchy Ladybug
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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Little Red Riding Hood: Text
This is an adaptation of the fairy tale "Little Red Riding Hood" in text format.
Read Works
Read Works: Buttons and the Blue Glove
[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.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Literary Elements in Jan Brett's the Mitten
Students will analyze such literary elements as plot, cause-effect relationships, sequence, and prediction in Jan Brett's The Mitten. Students will enjoy predicting upcoming story events and retelling the story from a dialogue that shows...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning:ninth Grade Lit and Comp: Introduction to Personal Narrative
This lesson is an introduction to a unit on personal narratives including the characteristics of a personal narrative: tells a story, events are in chronological order, and it has characters, setting, and plot. Click next at the bottom...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Emergent Readers With and Emergent Reader
Students will sequence story events with the teacher and read an emergent reader in a guided setting. The chosen book, "Pilgrims and Wampanoag: Together They Were Better", has high use of sight words and high levels of picture support...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: The Little Red Ant
[Free Registration/Login Required] The Little Red Ant and The Great Big Crumb is a story in the third grade Scholastic Literacy Series. This flipchart contains activities on order of events, cause/effect, vocabulary, and plot sequencing.
Other
Lulu's Games: The Right Order: Christmas Tree
Put three pictures in the correct sequence in order to see a story of a family getting a Christmas tree.
Other
Lulu's Games: The Right Order: Camping
Put five pictures in the correct sequence in order to see a story of two children camping and hiking.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Clifford the Big Red Dog: School
Put five pictures in the correct order to tell a story about Clifford the Big Red Dog.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix:"oh, That's Good!" "No, That's Bad!"
How can something that is good, be bad and something that is bad, be good? Inspired by the pattern and concept in Margery Cuyler's picture book That's Good! That's Bad!, students will brainstorm a sequence of related events as the story...