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Curated OER

Comprehension Skills: Evaluate Using Fiction Stories and Aesop's Fables

For Teachers K
Primary readers investigate several comprehension skills in the ten lessons of this unit. Forming opinions about stories, comparing stories to each other, using Venn Diagrams, and applying the ideas from a story to real life situations...
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Hawaiʻi State Department of Education

Story Design

For Teachers 3rd
Stories contain very specific elements; plot, characters, and key events. Learners use pantomime to retell a key event from the beginning, middle, and end of a story. They discuss setting and character as each group discusses and then...
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Curated OER

The History of African-American Children: A Guide for Teaching Black History at the Elementary School Level

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
How do you introduce the topic of slavery to your youngest learners? The Sneetches, by Dr. Suess, is a great introduction to the idea of being different. Read the story to your class, and discuss desegregation in public buildings. This...
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Curated OER

The Lost Son Worksheet

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this religious education worksheet, students view six illustrations that depict the story of The Lost Son. Students write a sentence to go along with each picture.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Life before Humans Roamed the Earth

For Students 4th - 5th
In this sequence learning exercise, students read the story, then they place the number, starting with 1 on the lines in the correct order as they happened in the story.
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K5 Learning

Clothing

For Students 1st Standards
Reinforce the instruction of sequence words using a learning exercise that asks learners to read a poem, match words to their coordinating number, and use the words first, second, and third.   
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Curated OER

Sequence of Events Storyline

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders practice sequencing the events in a story they have read. After reading a short story, 7th graders sequence the events of the story using a timeline. Their timeline is used to create a summary paragraph of the story...
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Curated OER

Sequencing

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders retell a story focusing on sequence. in this sequence instructional activity, 2nd graders read the story Carry Go Bring Come by Vyanne Samuels. They retell parts of the story and put them in the correct order. 
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Curated OER

Sort the Story- Roy the Zebra

For Students K - 1st
For this story sequence worksheet, students cut out 6 picture cards that depict a zebra in action. Students assemble the cards in the correct sequence to tell the story, then draw what they think will happen next.
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Curated OER

Which Way? (Sequencing Exercise)

For Students 4th - 5th
In this reading comprehension learning exercise, students practice putting events in the order they happened in the story. Students read a passage and then are to place six events in the order of their occurrence.
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Curated OER

A Whole Lotta Changin' Goin' On

For Teachers K - 2nd
Here's a fabulous activity on the life cycle of a butterfly. Youngsters are able to identify and understand the four stages of life. They construct models of a caterpillar and write a sequence story about the life of a butterfly. This...
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Snowy Day

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students investigate the concept of reading comprehension while focusing upon the sequencing of a story. They read the story and use the cutouts included in the lesson to put the story in order. Students also engage in a class discussion.
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Curated OER

A Backward Day

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this writing worksheet, students think about what they did yesterday, but tell the events in backwards order from the events at the day's end to the beginning. Students read the story starter and finish the story.
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Curated OER

Story of Silk

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars investigate the steps of the silk-making process through a reading of the story, "The Empress and the Silkworm" by Toy Hong. Sequencing cards are utilized to enhance the process and a silkworm's cocoon is unravelled.
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Curated OER

How can we write a silly story?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders use the writing process and create a silly story.  In this silly story activity, 2nd graders will review person, event and setting and complete a chart for each.  Students will put a person, event and setting in an...
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Curated OER

Sequencing

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this sequencing instructional activity, students determine analyze pictures and determine order of paragraphs in a story. In this fill in the blank instructional activity, students reorder six paragraphs.
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Curated OER

Mammal Story Problems (Math)

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders, after discussing the teacher's handout examples, practice writing five story problems about mammals using relevant/irrelevant information. As a class, they solve the story problems while identifying the key concepts that...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Beginning, Middle, Ending of Story

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this retelling a story in order worksheet, students write short answers for the beginning, middle and end of a story of their choice. Students compete three parts of the worksheet.
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Sequence Clue Words (part 2)

For Teachers 1st Standards
If you've already discussed using sequence words to determine the sequence of events in a story, then a follow up lesson plan is definitely in order. They read the story, My Apron by Eric Carle and look at the sequence clue words such as...
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Curated OER

Story Retellings

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders complete story maps in order to retell stories to the class.
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Curated OER

Theatre Lesson Plan, Performing a Story

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read the story, The Bundle of Sticks, and discuss the story elements within the story; setting, plot, conflict resolution.  In this readers theater lesson, 2nd graders reenact the story in small groups, then reflect on...
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Scholastic

So That's the Reason!

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Make sure your pupils can hit the target when analyzing cause and effect by practicing with this worksheet. On each arrow, pupils write a cause of an event in a story, and on each bullseye, they write the effect.
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Lesson on 'The Chimney Boy's Story' by Wes Magee

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Wes Magee's poem "The Chimney Boy's Story" about chimney sweeps/climbing boys is used as an introduction to a lesson that asks groups to research child labor in Victorian Britain. 
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August House

The Clever Monkey

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Your clever kindergartners will enjoy a series of activities based on the West African folktale, The Clever Monkey, adapted by Rob Cleveland. They sequence the story with pictures, copy sentences, illustrate idioms about cats, and taste...

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