Teach Elementary Students How to Sequence Events
A Reading Lesson Plan Featuring If You Take a Mouse to School
Sep 28, 2009
Teaching elementary students how to sequence events in a story helps to increase their comprehension skills. When students can organize the information they read, they can better understand the assigned text and more easily assimilate new information. Sequencing story events is an important skill for successful readers.
If You Take a Mouse to School by Laura Numeroff [HarperCollins, 2002] is a circular story for primary school age students. The book follows the adventures of a mouse who accompanies a boy to school. Teachers can use If You Take a Mouse to School to teach students how to sequence story events.
How to Sequence Plot Events Reading Lesson Objective
Students will use picture cards to correctly sequence the plot events in If You Take a Mouse to School by Laura Numeroff.
Introduce Plot Events in a Story to Elementary Kids
The teacher asks the students what they did this morning before they came to school. The class then discusses what they have done so far that day at school. The teacher explains to the students that the things that they have done are the events of their day.
The teacher shows the students If You Take a Mouse to School by Laura Numeroff. The students make predictions about events that they think might occur in the story. The teacher reads the story to the class and discusses the events that the mouse did before, during, and after school with the little boy.
Teach Students How to Sequence Events in a Story
The class creates a list of plot events from If You Take a Mouse to School. The students use the story to check to make sure their plot event list is complete and that the events are in the order that they occurred in the book.
The teacher passes out blank index cards to the students. She instructs the students to write a story event for If You Take a Mouse to School on each card and draw a picture to illustrate the scene.
The teacher explains to the students that when you put things in order it is called sequencing. She tells the kids to mix up the story event cards and put them in the proper sequence. The students use the book to sequence the story events.
Once the students have correctly sequenced the story events, the teacher pairs each student with a partner. The kids mix up the cards and switch them with their partner. The students correctly sequence the plot event cards without using the story. They check their work with their partners and correct any mistakes.
If You Take a Mouse to School can be used to teach students how to sequence story events. Once kids learn how to sequence teachers can also use If You Take a Mouse to School to learn about the importance of a daily schedule and routine.
Elementary teachers can also read the Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Lesson Plan and Teach Elementary Kids to Make Predictions for more information on teaching students how to make predictions.
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