1. Sequence of Events
 0701.5.2 Identify sequence of
events in text.

2. Key Words
First
Key Vocabulary
Finally/Lastly/In addition Next/Later/Following

3. Hitting the Big Homerun
One day a boy decided to join a baseball team. His
dad said that he would coach his son's team. The boy's dad
got a little carried away on winning. So the boy thought that
he wasn't good enough. So he tried to sit out as much as he
could. But everybody had to bat and it was the last inning in
the final game in the end year tournament. All bases were
loaded and there was two out. The first pitch he swung. He
missed it. It was a strike. The second pitch was the same
thing. Another strike. But on the third pitch he hit it. It was a
home run, his first one ever! When he got in his team's
dugout everybody on his team was cheering even the best
player that always got home runs was cheering. And then he
knew his dad was very proud of him because his dad pushed
the boy so hard that is how he got the home run.

4. Sequence the Events
 ________ The boy's dad started to
show signs that winning was all he
cared about.
 ________ The boy hit a homerun.
 _________ The boy decided to join
the baseball team.
 _________ The boy got a strike.
 _________ The boy's dugout was
cheering for him.
 _________ The boy's dad decide to
coach.

5. Weather Trap
I was in a open field when the rain came pouring
down on me. The sky was gray with deep black clouds
that shadowed the ground. A wind came and blew off my
hat, that finally had flying lessons. I heard the thunder
going Boom!Boom!Boom! I jumped. I was pretty sure it
sounded like a bomb just blown. I tried to run back to my
cabin but the screeching wind that sounded like an animal
in pain was pushing me back. A second later the lightening
that was striking the sky hit a tree and almost burned it in
half. I was really scared but I couldn't move now for one
strange reason. The wind had stopped but the rain was
still going at full force. I finally dragged my tired body back
to our small cabin. I opened the door and my Mom
screamed because at first she didn't know it was me
because after I was cleaned up she told I had looked
horrible. I laughed and put my freezing cold body in my
nice little sleeping bag!

6. Sequence the Events
 ________ The rain poured on the
author.
 ________ The lightening struck a
tree.
 _________ The wind began to make
strong gusts.
 _________ The author got in a
sleeping bag.
 _________ It became very dark.
 _________ The thunder began to
crash.

7. Gone Fishing
Once upon a time there lived on the bank of a stream a
man and a woman who had a daughter. They never could make up
their minds to punish her for her faults or to teach her nice manners;
and as for work -- she laughed in her mother's face if she asked her
to help cook the dinner or to wash the plates. All the girl would do
was to spend her days in dancing and playing with her friends; and
for any use she was to her parents they might as well have had no
daughter at all.
However, one morning her mother looked so tired that
even the selfish girl could not help seeing it, and asked if there was
anything she was able to do so that her mother might rest a little.
The good woman looked so surprised and grateful for this
offer that the girl felt rather ashamed, and at that moment would
have scrubbed down the house if she had been requested; but her
mother only begged her to take the fishing-net out to the bank of the
river and mend some holes in it, as her father intended to go fishing
that night. Father went fishing at night.

8. Sequence the Events
 PLACE THE EVENTS IN THE CORRECT
SEQUENCE BY USING THE NUMBERS
1-6:
 ________ Mother looked tired.
 ________ The girl laughed in Mother's
face.
 _________The girl was as to take the
fishing net out.
 _________ The girl first offered to work.
 _________ The girl spent her days playing.
 _________ Father went fishing at night.

9. Task
 Read a news article
 Sequence at least 5 events &
draw pictures representing each

10. Follow-Up Activity
 Arrange in sequence. Cut up some
popular comic strips, provide each student
with one complete strip, and ask students
to put the comics back in the correct order.
Or arrange students into groups, provide
each group with several cut-up strips from
the same comic, and ask them to separate
the panels into strips and arrange the strips
in the correct order. Then introduce older
students to a series of stories about an
ongoing news event, and ask them to
arrange the stories in the order in which
they appeared. Encourage them to use the
stories to create a news time line.