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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Tie It Up With Transition Words to Write a Story!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Read, write, and present a digital narrative with transition words to help us put the events in order! After modeling the lesson, groups of students will write narratives to recount a short sequence of events, they will include details...
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Lesson Plan
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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Lesson Plan
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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Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Sequence Kindergarten Unit

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[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...
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Interactive
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Sequence

For Students K - 1st Standards
Listen to an explanation about the series of events in Cinderella. Then look at some pictures where the story's events are all mixed up and put them in the correct order.
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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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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Identifying Sequence of Events Using Dr. Seuss

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
After listening to a reading of Dr. Seuss' Bartholomew and the Oobleck, students use graphic organizers and comic strips to practice sequencing. In a fun activity, small groups follow directions to make oobleck.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Nar Text Structure: Story Sequence Organizer [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete graphic organizers to sequence the story and finally create an illustrated storyboard. Materials are included.
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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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Activity
Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Sequence of Events

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Build sequencing skills by looking at transition words like first, next, then, and finally. Read four short paragraphs and use the transition clues to put the events in the correct order. Then use these words while typing an original...
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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Sequencing Making a Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich (7 Steps)

For Students 4th
Uncover the hidden picture by putting the steps in order to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in this sequencing game.
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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Sequencing Making Cookies (9 Steps)

For Students 5th Standards
Reveal the picture by putting the steps of making chocolate chip cookies in order in this sequencing game.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: The Green Dog Sequencing Story Events

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[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.
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Activity
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.
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Activity
Other

Lulu's Games: The Right Order: On the Beach

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Put four pictures in the correct sequence in order to see how two children spend a day at the beach.
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Activity
Other

Lulu's Games: The Right Order: Camping

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Put five pictures in the correct sequence in order to see a story of two children camping and hiking.
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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Sequencing Making a Snowman (5 Steps)

For Students 3rd Standards
Uncover the hidden picture by putting the steps in order to make a snowman in this sequencing game.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Frog and Toad Are Friends the Story

For Teachers 1st
During this lesson plan, 1st graders will sequence events in "Frog and Toad Are Friends" by Arnold Lobel, describe the problem and solution, and describe the characters.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Sequencing With "A Big Fish for Max"

For Teachers 1st Standards
Today students practice close reading as they look for evidence in the story so they can sequence the events for the beginning, middle, and end.
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Activity
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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Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Sequence Kindergarten Unit: Beginning and End

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

Read Works: Children in the Shadows

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a Jewish child living in hiding in Nazi occupied Belgium. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Lesson Plan
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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Interactive
Room Recess

Room Recess: Sequencing

For Students 3rd Standards
Move the train cars into the right order to show the sequence of steps involved in brushing your teeth, ordering pizza, wrapping a present, and more in this online sequencing game.