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How to Teach a Sequence of Events to Children

Being able to understand a sequence of events is a major component in reading comprehension. When readers are able to identify what happened in the beginning, in the middle and at the end of a text, they exhibit comprehension of what they have read. Being able to understand the order in which events occurs in a text illustrates meaning-making with the text; an understanding of the message of the text. In order to promote sequence of events, present children with opportunities to arrange the order in which events occur in books that they have read.

Things You'll Need

  • Images from a text
  • Paper
  • Crayons
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Instructions

  1. Ordering Pictures

    • 1

      Photocopy images from a selected text, or draw your own images from the text. Photocopy or draw images that illustrate events that occurred in the beginning, middle and end of the text.

    • 2

      Place the images in a pile -- the pictures should be arranged in non-sequential order.

    • 3

      Encourage children to sort through the pictures and prompt them to arrange the images in the order in which they occurred in the story. The picture that illustrates what happened first should be placed first in a straight line; the picture that illustrates what happened second should be placed second and so forth.

    • 4

      Invite children to tell the events that the images represent, retelling the events that occurred in the story in sequential order.

    Drawing Pictures

    • 5

      Provide children with paper and crayons.

    • 6

      Encourage children to use the crayons and paper to draw pictures that illustrate events that happened in the beginning, middle and end of a text.

    • 7

      Prompt children to offer a description of the events that their illustrations represent. By drawing the pictures and offering descriptions of what the images represent, children are practicing sequencing events.

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