RETELLING A STORY/SEQUENCING/TRANSITION WORDS LESSON: 2ND/3RD GRADE

How do you retell a story? What are the words you use to keep your storry in order?

A lesson plan on sequencing a story for 2nd/3rd graders begins with reading a short story aloud, then discussing its main events. Students would identify the beginning, middle, and end of the story, using pictures or sentence strips to arrange key events in order. For retelling, they would use transition words like "first," "next," "then," and "finally" to narrate the story in their own words. As an activity, students could work in pairs to retell the story to each other, ensuring that they sequence the events correctly using the transition words they’ve learned.

This 27 page resource includes:

• complete lesson plan on retelling a story and sequencing with transition words
• includes templates to use with lesson
• includes templates to use for literacy workshop to retell story, sequence and paractice using transition words
• templates that can be used as online presentation or adapted to an anchor chart for classroom