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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 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:

    • Have students 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. 

    • Discuss as a class:

      • When do writers put events in sequential order?

      • How does ordering events help readers?

    Activity:

    • Have students create a comic explaining their morning routine using transitional words as they write.
    • 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.

    Closure:

    • Have students share their comic with a partner or the group.

    Differentiation:

    • Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature.
    • Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.

    • Allow students to work in pairs.

    • Provide sentence stems as needed.

    • Provide the opportunity to role play the comics.

    Resources:

    • Comic to print or display: Comic.

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