Sequence

Sequence Reading Comprehension
 * Grade 1 Lesson

Embedded Skills:**


 * **Recall facts and details from oral text**
 * **Interpret graphic organizers**
 * **Interpret vocabulary**
 * **Set purpose for listening**
 * **Sequence**


 * TW introduce the story, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. T and SW identify author and illustrator and what their job is. By looking at front cover and title, SW make predictions as to what they think the story will be about. TW list predictions on chart paper.

T and SW set purpose for reading story. TW read story aloud to students. T and SW refer back to prediction chart to see if predictions matched the text.

TW introduce/discuss the concept of sequencing using time order words (first, second, etc.). T and SW discuss what time order words were actually used in the story (7 days of the week). TW aid students in identifying which items the caterpillar ate through in the correct order. SW hold retelling cards and will be moved around to place the food items in the correct order as they appeared in the story. Where they move will be student-directed.**


 * **TW provide a long piece of yarn, a hole punch, and patterns of the different foods (apple, pear, plum, strawberry, orange, piece of chocolate cake, ice cream cone, pickle, Swiss cheese, salami, lollipop, piece of cherry pie, sausage link, cupcake, watermelon) which appear in the story. Students will color, cut, and punch a hole in each food. Then they may sequence the story by putting the food on the string as they appear in the story.** **