Sequencing Events

Level 2
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To understand a text better, you should be able to identify the
components of a story such as the beginning, the middle, and
the end of the story.

You should also be able to retell the events within a given

text in the order in which they occurred.
the order in which events occur
is called SEQUENCE

A B C D
 Signal words of sequence

The ordering of events in a story is usually indicated by th

e following example words

• once upon a time • in the end

• then • before
• later • after
• afterwards • previously
• and • etc.
Example
“He left the house at 10 o'clock in
the morning before catching a
taxy to the airport.“
The sequence of the events:
1. left the house
2. catching a bus
You can tell that event 1 happened earlier and
event 2 happened later by the use of time
sequence “before”.
Additional resources

You can visit the following websites to get more examples

https://strategiesforspecialinterventions.weebly.com/sequencing-of-events.html
https://learnzillion.com/lesson_plans/8938-use-signal-words-to-clearly-show-a-sequence-of-events-
in-your-writing/
Thank you!
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