Title – Sequencing Conventions of Oral English

By – Joan Monrose

Primary Subject – Language Arts

Secondary Subjects – Math

Grade Level – Kindergarten

Subject Focus:

Conventions of Oral English

Other Language Arts Skills:

• Viewing
• Speaking
• Reading
• Listening

Objectives:

Students should be able to:
• Tell about an event using a logical sequence.
  
• Sequence pictures logically.

Content outline:

Sequencing is putting things in order of their occurrence.

Context:

Sequencing enables children to follow and give accurate decisions. It also serves as a prerequisite for writing.

Materials:

• shoe
• sock
• shoelace
• pictures
• handouts
• crayons

Introduction:

1. Teacher will invite students to sit in the form of a horseshoe.
2. Teacher will role play, putting on her sock and shoe in the wrong order.

Development:

1. Students share during the demonstration.

2. Teacher facilitates students’ responses by asking:
   
   
   • What is happening?
     
   • What should I have done?
     
   • Do you agree?
     
   • Why do you agree?
     
   • What do you think should have been done?
     
   • What do you believe I should do next?
     
   • Why do you think so?

3. Students place three picture in the correct sequence by questioning by the teacher.

4. The class orally expresses the sequence of the pictures:
   
   
   • The rabbit is going to the garden.
     
   • The rabbit is eating the carrot.
     
   • The rabbit is leaving the garden.

Conclusion:

1. Children read three sentences.
2. Students place them in a sequential order.
3. Students dramatize the meaning of the sentences.

Evaluation:

Give students an evaluation worksheet to place numbers in order of the occurrences of the pictures.