Sequence of Events - 5th Grade

Today's lesson involves sequencing. Sequencing is ordering the steps we follow and is putting the events of a story in time order of when they happened. When or why do we use sequencing? Sequencing is easiest to use in math, it involves numbers. We can count one, two, three, four, 5, you can use patterns as in even numbers, two, four, 6, 8, ten, and other patterns you might use are counting by 5s. Counting by tens by 20s, multiple different sequences that usually involve numbers. In language art, the easiest sequence is alphabetical order. We would use words like at Bo cat dog energy and so on and so forth. Those words are separated and alphabetical order by the first letters, so a, B, C, D, E so as you can see, they're in this order. Building blocks use technical writing for sequencing. So these are instructions, take step one, followed by two, three, four, 5, 6, 7, 8, starting with a base and ending with a final product. Sequencing is easy to remember, and technical writing, such as recipes. This is a recipe for ferocious fruit and chocolate fondue, this little guy here says it's a tasty dessert for Friends. If you follow the recipes instructions, you will find your ingredients. It tells you about the nutrition value. Any safety instructions that you need, and then the directions start with a sequence of numbers one, two, three, four, 5, and 6. Starting with washing, ending with dipping your fruit and chocolate and enjoying it. How to instructions are also sequencing events that fall in the technical writing category. This first one tells you how to brush your teeth. Step one, without any words, shows you put in toothpaste on a brush, that shows you the angle of how to brush teeth, shows you the rotation of your toothbrush, to make sure you hit the backside of your teeth, and how to reach all the way into the back. Personally, I like the Star Wars origami. There are 12 different steps in order to make your Star Wars ship. Sequencing involving objects, they can be sorted into size order. This order here goes from smallest to largest. You can also go from largest to smallest. The hardest part about sequencing and language arts is when you read, try to figure out the sequence of events. So you start with the beginning of a story, the middle, and the end, or the resolution. Think of it as a sort of roller coaster. You have the beginning of the story. You start to setting, get your characters, you get in, you start to take a ride as the story starts. You move up the roller coaster, you hit the middle, at the middle of the story, we have a climax is the most exciting part where all the action takes place. After the action takes place, the story starts to wind down, you come down the roller coaster, and there ends up being a resolution, the resolution is the ending or how we solve the problem in the story. So at the end is when you're all happy, hip hip hooray. Yay. Make sure you pay attention to transition words. When you're writing and when you're reading, they help you understand the order or the sequence of events. You'll see words like the beginning, middle, and end. Other dead giveaways are first, next, then, after last, finally, and the easiest ones are first, second and third. These are great in lists, instructions, and how tos. Other dead giveaways are things such as the date. Or the time. To review. Sequencing is when you put things in an order that they happened in or you're going to give a set of instructions of how to do something in. You have a mathematical order or a numerical order. You have an alphabetical order, which is separated into your ABCs or into words to start with ABCs. You have technical writing, which can be your recipes, your directions, or how tos, can have a size order, smallest, largest, largest, to smallest, and in our stories, we follow our plot. We have the beginning, the middle, and the end, this is when we use our transition words, such as first, next, then, after last, and finally.