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Sequencing Time and Events

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Subject: ELA (English Language Arts), ESL/ELL (English Language Learning)

Lesson Length: 30 - 40 mins

Topic: Sequencing Time and Events

Grade Level: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Standards / Framework:

Brief Description: Students will use correct sequence words to describe the order of events in a story when speaking and writing.

Know Before You Start: Students should have knowledge of basic transitional phrases for sequencing events.

Hook:

  • Ask students to write about what they did that morning before school. 

  • Have students share their narratives aloud. Discuss the sequential order of events and transition or signal words they used. 

  • Ask, when do writers put events in sequential order? How does ordering events help readers?

Activity: Students will create a comic explaining their morning routine utilizing transitional words as they write.

Closure: Have students share their comic with a partner or whole group.

Differentiation:

  • Allow students to work in pairs.

  • Provide sentence stems for students to use in their writing.

  • Provide the opportunity to role play the comics.

Resources:

  • Comic to print or display: Comic.
  • Use this activity as a reinforcement for following routines and procedures at the beginning of the year or a refresher later in the school year.

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