1. Sequencing events Comprehension Toolkit

2. Comprehension means understanding. The answers to some questions are easy to find, while the answers to others are more difficult to work out. The best way to understand a text is to ask yourself questions as you read it.

3. Comprehension Toolkit Sometimes it helps us to understand a text better if we organise events in the correct sequence. Is this the order that someone starts their day? What is the correct order?

4. Comprehension Toolkit Read the text and create a picture in your mind of the events in the order in which they happened. We were relieved when we finally arrived at our destination late in the afternoon. It had been a long, tiring journey. We had started out at dawn and along the way had taken a bumpy detour because of damage to the highway. To top it all, Maya had started to complain that she was feeling sick shortly after we left home.

5. Comprehension Toolkit Now that you have worked out the sequence of events, click to move them into the correct order. We arrived at our destination. We started out at dawn. We made a detour. Maya started to feel sick.

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