Sequencing - Putting Ideas in Order

We have begun our next unit in Language, which is focusing on a skill called Sequencing. This simply means putting ideas in the correct order as they occur in a story or non-fiction work. This is an important skill for readers because it helps develop understanding of a story in a logical way, and it also assist students in retelling events in a manner that is both logical and makes sense.

As part of our sequencing unit, we are reading a novel called "Tuck Everlasting", which is a fiction novel about a family that lives forever. It is a great story for developing our understanding of sequencing, and is also excellent for learning about descriptive writing. We will be practicing both as we read this story as a read aloud in class.

As a shared reading text, we read a script called "The Great Crepe Battle". It is much like the American folktale "John Henry" in which a man battles a machine, except that it is set in a small town in Quebec. We have read the script a number of times, and then we identified all the most important events. I wrote the events on the Smartboard in no specific order, and then asked students to write them down in the correct order from the story. Following this, students are making a comic strip to retell the important events of the story in the correct sequence. We hope to finish these before the Christmas holiday.

We also reviewed this Blendspace lesson about sequencing to learn about what exactly it is. Although it is made for younger students by another teacher, the core ideas of what sequencing is are there. Here is the link:

Blendspace Sequencing Lesson

Here is a Glogster page with practice for sequence of events a well. This is excellent!

Sequence of Events Glog