November Focus Strategy ~ Sequence

November’s Strategy Focus is Sequencing. This should be incorporated with the story of the week and in read-a-louds.

Sequencing, therefore, is a skill that students must learn in a fairly structured way. Students need to understand and recreate sequences of events. Students must learn to distinguish important events from less important ones. They need to understand cause and effect and plot development and the way characters change over time. These and other academic skills have foundations in sequencing instruction.

 Assignments made in reading and writing should be reflexive of the strategy being used that month. Please keep referring to the strategies that were previously taught: Compare/Contrast, Main Idea, and Literacy Elements.

 

Key Words: first, next, following, finally, first thing, right after, in conclusion, afterward, not long

Tips:
-          Sequencing tells when something happens.
-          Sequencing can order events or actions. It can also order settings, characters, feelings...  
-          Sequencing has a beginning, middle, end
-          Sequencing tells who, what, when, and where
-          Sequencing gives directions when telling how something is done.