A Scaffolded Approach to Helping Students Sequence and Retell Events and Stories. Promote high-quality instruction with this teacher-developed, scaffolded resource for sequence and retelling events. Enhance students’ confidence, promote independent learning, and assist students to reach proficiency in grade-level targets with included scaffolding such as placement boxes, visual aids with real photography, word banks, time order word banks, and self-checking elements. Students encounter a variety of sequences in literature and informational text as well as in everyday life. Sequence & Retelling Cards and Mats provide examples of sequences in picture form for students to recognize, arrange, and describe. The picture sequences offer a simple, accessible format for practicing reading comprehension skills: identifying events in a real-world sequence, identifying, and understanding illustrations and photos, and retelling a story using key language.

• WHAT YOU GET: 86 Picture Cards (1.825” x 1.825”), 3 Sequence & Retelling Mats (12” x 10”), 2 Reference Mats (12” x 10”), 1 Task Card (6” x 9”), 1 Really Good Stuff Instructional Guide (8.5” x 11”).
  
• SCAFFOLDED: Includes scaffolding such as placement boxes, visual aids with real photography, word banks, time order word banks, and self-checking elements.
  
• SKILLS BASED & CREATED BY TEACHERS: This product is purposefully created by teachers who have real-world classroom experience to align to multiple learning standards. Skills covered include sequencing, parts of a story (beginning, middle, end), retelling, time order, and finding important details of a story.
  
• INDEPENDENT PRACTICE BUILDS CONFIDENCE: Children develop confidence as they complete and interact with these materials independently.
  
• SUPPORTS SMALL GROUPWORK: This activity supports up to 3 Student Pairs working at once to promote collaboration and groupwork.