MPU 3022:

Reading Skills
 Definition
Essential reading skill that
students must develop if
they are to fully understand
all reading material.
Refers to the identification of the
Contributes to students' components of a story, such as the
ability to comprehend what beginning, middle, and end, and
they read. also to the ability to retell the
events within a given text in the
order in which they occurred.
Definition
The ability to sequence
events in a text is a key Finding meaning in a text
comprehension strategy, depends on the ability to
especially for narrative understand and place the
texts. details, the sequence of
events, within some larger
context—the beginning,
middle, and end of a story.
He ordering of events in a story,
along with connecting words such
as once upon a time, then, later,
afterwards, and in the end, are
good examples of textual features,
an understanding of which gives
the reader a way of integrating the
story's individual parts into its
larger framework—and thereby
understanding the author's
purpose.
Why Teach?

●With their reading ●Organize information

comprehension of a and ideas in their own
text, especially narrative
1 2 writing.
texts.

●Understand the
3 4 ● Venus is the second
structure of a text and planet from the Sun
how it is put together.
 Sequencing
Sequencing is an important reading
strategy that helps students make sense
of what they are reading. For English
students, being able to identify the
sequence of events in a piece of writing
is essential for them to gain a clear
understanding. In turn, these reading
skills will help students in their own
writing and will help them to construct a
cohesive and logical flow to their writing
that readers can follow easily.
 SEQUENCING
GAMES AND
ACTIVITIES FOR
STUDENTS
Telling It Like It Was

1) Have students retell the events of the

story, article, poem etc in their own
words.
2) Further expand on this activity by having students
rewrite what they have been reading. This will challenge
them to consider the importance of sequencing, both
from a reader’s point of view and from that of a writer.
 HOW TO IDENTIFY SEQUENCE WHEN
READING OR VIEWING A TEXT
• look out for the sequencing words or transitions that are used to
connect the various parts of the text.
• Some of these words and phrases also act as signals to provide an
indication of whether the event will be located in the beginning, in the
middle, or toward the end of the text’s chronology.

Beginning
Middle End
● Once upon a time /
● Meanwhile ● In the end
Once there was
● After that ● Finally
● In the beginning
● Suddenly ● After all
● First of all
USE GRAPHIC ORGANISERS FOR
SEQUENCING
Story sequence chart
Timelines
 Conclusion
In conclusion, to get pleasure either in this
world or in the hereafter, we need to work on
our own without expecting from others. As in
the previous story, Gladys is not trying by
studying hard to get what she wants but trying
to get a rich husband to live happily ever after.
Not only that, as a woman, we cannot rely on
the success of the husband alone. We also need
to have a career and our own money to ensure
we become a great woman”