Log onto the Internet and enjoy sequencing games. Tracy Boyd, a speech-language pathologist at Altoona School District, in Altoona, Wisconsin, created Brushing Your Teeth at Quia Online (quia.com). Students can read the seven steps required to brush your teeth. For example, one step reads, "Rinse off toothbrush." The steps are scrambled. Students can read each step out loud and then review them, imagining the sequence of events fitting together. Students then can enter the corresponding numbers 1 through 7 in the fields beside the seven scrambled steps, placing the toothbrushing steps in sequential order to reveal the hidden picture. Other sequencing hidden picture games at Quia Online include Going Sledding, Making Cookies and Making Microwave Popcorn. The picture games move from six to 10 steps, allowing for different difficulty levels. Quia Online also offers hidden picture games for logical sequence, such as size, weight, time and age. At Professor Garfield Online (professorgarfield.org), players can mix up the panels of a comic strip and place them in the correct sequence. Players answer questions after correctly sequencing the comic strip to win the boxing round. Become a supreme unscrambler by winning five rounds.
Have students paste or color pictures of the life cycle of a frog in the correct sequence. They must also either read the explanation of each stage of development, from the eggs to the frog, and glue the explanation beneath the corresponding picture or write it themselves. The same activity can be implemented to show the stages of flower development, from seed to flower.
During daily oral language, dictation or spelling sentences, give students a sentence or two that are scrambled. Ask students to place the scrambled sentences in the correct sequence. You can leave hidden messages for students, such as giving them information about a student's birthday or other classroom event. You can do this by giving them a scrambled sequence sentence such as: "Ahpyp daByrith, lSaly!" Ask students to place the sentence in the correct sequence. Unscrambled, it reads, "Happy birthday, Sally!" You can write these sentences on a SMART Board, chalkboard or place them on the list of spelling sentences. Present them in sequence by scrambling only spelling words. For example: "The tpladeo is swimming." The spelling word is "tadpole." Students must place the spelling word in the correct sequence. You can time the spelling scramble games or ask students to work at their own pace.
Instruct students to write a reading response journal after they complete a book in class. The reading response journal, as listed on Have Fun Teaching Online (havefunteaching.com), will require that students indicate the sequence of events as they occurred at the beginning, in the middle and at the end of the story. You can add to the sequencing by turning it into a game. Students can draw pictures on index cards of the beginning, middle and ending of the book. Those students who have drawn pictures of the same book can glue them together on poster board in the correct order and create a poster board sequence puzzle of the book.