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title: Sequencing Time and Events
description: Use correct sequence words to describe the order of events in a story when speaking and writing.
image: https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/sequencing_time_and_events-001.png
---

**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: **

- [CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.1.3](https://learning.ccsso.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/ELA_Standards1.pdf)
- [CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.2.3](https://learning.ccsso.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/ELA_Standards1.pdf)
- [CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.3.C](https://learning.ccsso.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/ELA_Standards1.pdf)
- [CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.3.C](https://learning.ccsso.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/ELA_Standards1.pdf)
- [CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.3.C](https://learning.ccsso.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/ELA_Standards1.pdf)
- [CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.3.C](https://learning.ccsso.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/ELA_Standards1.pdf)
- [CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.7.3.C](https://learning.ccsso.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/ELA_Standards1.pdf)
- [CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.8.3.C](https://learning.ccsso.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/ELA_Standards1.pdf)
- [WIDA: STANDARD 1](https://wida.wisc.edu/sites/default/files/resource/WIDA-ELD-Standards-Framework-2020.pdf)

**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](https://share.pixton.com/q5lpoof).

**Suggested Content:**

- [![](https://img.pixton.com/content-pack/1838241401767358464/thumbnail.png) Home ](https://content.pixton.com/home)
- [![](https://img.pixton.com/content-pack/2078530841190330368/thumbnail.png) Elementary School ](https://content.pixton.com/elementary-school)
- [![](https://img.pixton.com/content-pack/2078531110531739648/thumbnail.png) Middle School ](https://content.pixton.com/middle-school)
- [![](https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/thumbnail-mystery.png) Mystery ](https://content.pixton.com/mystery)

**Suggested Story Starters:**

- [ Personal Narrative ](https://story-starters.pixton.com/parts-of-a-story-personal-narrative)
- [ Funny Personal Narrative ](https://story-starters.pixton.com/funny-personal-narrative)
- [ Why I Missed School ](https://story-starters.pixton.com/missed-day-of-school)
- [ Something Unexpected ](https://story-starters.pixton.com/rainy-walk-to-school)
- [ Big News ](https://story-starters.pixton.com/big-news-after-school)

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