1. Sequencing
By Karen Phillips

2. In your Reader’s Notebook write:
Date
Topic
Page
11/27
Sequencing Information Chronologically ?
L.O. Students will be able to use graphic organizers to sequence information chronologically.

3. Skills We Will Practice
Sequencing chronologically
Using graphic organizers
Using Sequencing vocabulary: time-order transitions and signal words
Finding and using details in a text

4. the ordering of information.
Sequencing is
the ordering of information.

5. Kinds of Sequencing
When you read you have to identify how the author has organized the information in a story.
The writer may use a sequence that is spatial, chronological, emphatic, or logical.

6. Transition and Signal Words
As you read,
identify words that are transitions and signals that help you understand if the author
has ordered the information spatially, chronologically, emphatically, or logically.

7. Time Order Signal Words
Write down the time order signal words and phrases that are on the next two pages:

8. Some Time-Order Transitions/Signal Words
First, Second
Third
Then
Before
Beforehand
After
meanwhile
Subsequently
Simultaneously
Next
Earlier
previously
Sooner
Prior
Lastly Finally
Later
Afterwards

9. Time Order Transitions
in the morning, that evening
after that, last week,
later that day
two weeks later, last month
Time Order Transitions

10. Be a Sequence Detective
See if you can spot the signal words in the following story and identify the chronology.

11. In your Reading Notebook, create a graphic organizer:
Events in story order
Signal words

12. Underline time-order signal words:
Last Tuesday morning I met my new friend Amy. Later that day, class 851 was in a relay race. I told Amy she was a good runner. The following week, we were in another race, and class 851 won!

13. As you read, underline the signal words and write notes to yourself.
Last Tuesday morning I met my new friend Amy. Later that day, class 851 was in a relay race. I told Amy she was a good runner. The following week, we were in another race, and class 851 won!

14. Check graphic organizer:
Events in story
Signal words
met Amy
Last Tuesday morning
class was in relay race
Later that day
class 851 won race
Following week

15. Sequencing a Story
Each of you has three images and a sheet labeled 1, 2, 3.
Sequence the images on the sheet in chronological order:

16. Using a Graphic Organizer
Create a graphic organizer for the story:
Write in the events, and use signal words or phrases that indicate time order.
Give the characters names and using signal words, share your story with a classmate. Does your classmate agree with your sequencing?
Event
Transition/Signal Word

17. Reflection
Why would an author tell a story out of its proper chronological sequence?
Could an author combine different types of sequencing in the same story?

18. Author’s Sequence vs Story’s Chronology
Authors often tell a story out of the story’s actual chronological sequence for dramatic effect. For example, the author might begin with a startling current event and then go back in the past to relate the event’s history.
As you read this kind of story, underline dates, make notes for yourself, and create a graphic organizer.

19. Timeline of Tupac’s Death
Author’s Sequence of Events
Signal words
and Dates
Actual Chronology
Date Event 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

20. Drive-By Assault in Las Vegas Ends Tupac Shakur's Short, Violent Life
Saturday, September 14, 1996
Today, Tupac Shakur, 25, the controversial but wildly popular "gangsta" rapper, died in a Las Vegas hospital of gunshot wounds he suffered in a drive-by shooting last weekend.
Underline dates and make notes to keep track of the time order

21. Work in Groups Digital Analog Sundials Atomic Andy Ahmed Garey
Dashanae
Edwin
Dexter
Sandra
Jorge
Leanne
Amy
Michael
Erick
Sahriar
Nancy
Bibi
Christina
Watches
Water Clocks
Vincent
Rolando
Fatima S
Emely
Tatiana
Ivan
Robert
Fatima H

22. Underline dates and make notes to keep track of the time order
"Five shots and they couldn't kill me," he boasted two years ago in one song after recovering from a shooting during a robbery.
Then last year, in a song called "If I Die 2Nite," he wondered whether "heaven got a ghetto for thug
n " and added with flip fatalism: "Don't shed a tear for me, n I ain't happy here.”
In your notebook, answer these questions:
What year was the robbery shooting? /
What year did he write “If I Die 2Nite”? /

23. Underline dates and make notes:
Since last Saturday, Shakur had been in critical condition after a man in a white Cadillac pulled up beside his BMW, opened fire, and hit Tupac 4 times. The rapper was driving with friends to a nightclub after watching the world heavyweight title fight between Mike Tyson and Bruce Seldon.
Doctors at University Medical Center in Las Vegas had operated on Shakur's chest and removed his right lung, but hospital officials said he died at 7:03 p.m. EST of respiratory and heart failure.
“last Saturday” is what date? /

24. Filled in Organizer: Author’s Sequence/Event Signal words and Dates
Actual Chronology
Date Event
Tupac died
9/14/1996-Today
Robber shooting
Tupac shot in drive-by
Last weekend
9/7 or 9/8
Wrote Song- If I Die
Robbery Shooting
2 yrs-1994
9/7/96 Tupac shot
If I Die 2Nite
Last year-1995
Since last weekend Operation-critical condition
In critical condition
Driving w/friends
Rt lung removed
9/7/96
Last Saturday Since last Saturday
9/14/96 Tupac died
7:03 p.m.
Died
Died 7:03 p.m.

25. Summary of Time-Order Sequencing
Stories have a chronological sequence,
but authors often tell the story out of sequence.
As you read, notice, underline, and write notes in the margins. Underline signal words:
dates, times, words, and phrases such as: before, later, meanwhile, previously, the following year
To help yourself, create a graphic organizer, such as a chart or time line.

26. Skills We Practiced Sequencing chronologically
Using graphic organizers
Using Sequencing vocabulary: time-order transitions and signal words
Finding and using details in a text