In both cases my students are successful with this literacy task as they are practicing oral language skills.Īt the end of our center time, I have my students orally share their stories in front of their classmates. My high achieving students create more complex characters and events in their stories while my students who are just developing create very basic details to tell a shorter story. This literacy activity is naturally differentiated. Social studies, particularly history, uses sequence of events to make sense of why, what and when events took place.įinally, we need sequencing skills to talk about something that happened in the past in a logical manner so others can follow the story.Ĭheck out this quick video to see how these primary children use their sequencing skills to show comprehension and retell stories. In math, computation problems often follow a certain order. In science, kids need it to perform the steps in experiments, observe changes, and understand how and why things change over time. Sequencing is an important skill in all subject areas. Even as adults we put our sequencing skills to test when we follow a new recipe or read an instructional manual for how to build or fix something. These types of texts require a person to read and follow steps in a specific order to get the desired outcome. In addition to narratives, readers and writers of how-to and procedural texts need strong sequencing skills. When students begin to write stories their ability to form a plot depends on the understanding that events happen in a specific order. The ability to correctly identify beginning, middle, and end allows readers to retell a narrative in a manageable way. Teaching readers to understand the importance of order of events helps them deepen their comprehension. The ability to sequence events is an important skill for both reading and writing. Sequencing refers to the identification of the components of a story or event- the beginning, middle, and end - and also to the ability to retell the events in a text in the order in which they occurred. Make sure to download the freebie at the end of the post so you can try these ideas with your students! What is Sequencing? Read on to learn how I teach sequencing skills through oral language and writing activities.
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