Sequencing Events

Sequencing events is a good place for children to begin with recalling a story and observing cause/effect in literature. Sequencing a story helps children to learn to pay attention to the details pertaining to characters and setting. Creating dialogue about a story is a good way to direct children's thoughts to the events in a story, but creating a timeline about a story is a good way to demonstrate to them the ability to recall a story and what happened in it. There a ton of activities that children can do to facilitate an understanding of the sequence of events in a story. Children can retell a story, which gives them authorship in defining important details. Children can work with pictures in order to facilitate a retelling of the story.

This YouTube video link on "Reading Comprehension Strategies: Sequence of Events" works with the sequencing of events and provides a lot of diffent short activities that will help children to develop an understanding for sequencing through the use of fun and engaging activities.

This simple graphic organizer is a good way of getting children into the analytical stage of sequencing events and provides an opportunity for visualizing the events with a good re-applicable format.