• Identify sequential order in one or more passages

  NOTE: Sequential order may include dates; first, next, last; before and after; and order of events

ESL Ideas      (B=Beginning, I=Intermediate, T=Transitional)
(B) Using a list provided by the teacher, students highlight transitional words in a newspaper article or other writing. 
(I, T) Students identify orally or in writing the beginning, middle, and end of a story they have read or written.
(I, T) Students use pictures to create a story sequence of events. Students can draw the pictures or the teacher can cut out pictures and have the students place the pictures in order.
(I, T) Students list the steps in a procedure or science demonstration.  Transitional students can also make sentences or paragraphs about the procedure or demonstration.
(I, T) Students locate comic strips (preferably from the Sunday paper) and cut them into separate frames. Students exchange groups of comic strip frames and place them in the correct sequential order. Students then read the newly sequenced comic strip to the class to check for correct order.

Storyboard
(B, I) Activity is a graphic organizer the student recalls major events of a story and illustrates the events in the squares provided

Write Design: Sequence Graphic Organizers
(B, I, T) Activities are sequencing graphic organizers for the following: ranking, continuum scale, cycle, bridging snapshots, series of events, and problem/solution outline

Time-Order Chart
(B, I, T) Activity is a time-order graphic organizer the student writes events in boxes and details on the branching lines

Common News Stories
(I, T) Three news stories from Bangkok Post that follow familiar sequence of events: storms, the environment, and disputes

ESL Reading Rubric
(B, I, T) Rubric is divided into four ESL level categories that help determine reading abilities

5 Minute English
(B, I, T) Site contains links to simplified online reading collections and self-checking quizzes

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