I love using Pancake Breakfast by Tomie dePaola and skip the ending. Take any book with a clear beginning, middle, and end, but don’t read one of the three parts. **If you’re looking for HOW-TO / PROCEDURAL TEXTS, go to the How-To Mentor Text Book List.īut first, let’s start with a few possible activities to help you teach this concept… These are the books I’ve used in my classroom as well as new releases that I’ve read to my own children. Here are some of my favorites you can use as mentor texts to teach this specific text structure. I specifically love using wordless picture books to teach sequence, but there are many wonderful picture books that also can model story sequence or beginning, middle, and end.
Finally, it helps children follow directions! It also helps kids predict what happens next because they understand the structure of a story or plot. Understanding a story’s sequence helps kids when they need to retell the events in the story. Sequencing is part of the Common Core Reading Standards - and it’s an important life skill and literacy skill. But remember, that you’re introducing story sequence as you read aloud to children and practice following directions. I taught sequencing starting as young as kindergarten and continued up through the primary grades. Use picture books as mentor texts to teach sequence, including beginning, middle, and end. It’s important to teach sequencing to kids.
