Sequential Order

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Sequential Order
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Ordering the events of a passage in sequence is
an important reading skill that you will use
across the curriculum and in everyday life.
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• Math Solving problems in sequential format
• Social Studies Learning sequential events in
  history
• Language Arts Writing a How To paragraph by
  placing steps in sequence
• Science Proving a scientific experiment by
  using sequential steps

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Definition

• Sequential order describes the way that events
  follow one another in a story or passage. Signal
  Words in the passage might include time-order
  words such as now, when, after ,while and during.
  You will learn to place events in sequential
  order even though some of them may be described
  in the passage as having already happened.

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Steps to Determining Sequential Order

• Read the passage first.
• Consider how the sequence of the details relate
  even if the events are given out of order.
• Highlight and number the events in the correct
  order.
• Reread the events in the order in which you wrote
  them, to ensure that they make sense and follow
  the order of the passage.

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• Julie woke up early that morning to finish
  reading the play. During auditions, Julie read a
  few scenes and did a monologue. Auditions for
  Fame were held Saturday from 1000 A.M. to 200
  P.M. in the auditorium. At the end of auditions,
  Mrs. Martinez announced that callback would be
  posted outside her door on Monday. As she walked
  into the auditorium, she grew nervous, but once
  she saw her friends, she relaxed a bit. At 930
  A.M. her mother drove her to school for the
  audition.

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2. Julie woke up early that morning to finish
reading the play. 5. During auditions, Julie
read a few scenes and did a monologue. 1.
Auditions for Fame were held Saturday from 1000
A.M. to 200 P.M. in the auditorium. 6. At the
end of auditions, Mrs. Martinez announced that
callback would be posted outside her door on
Monday. 4. As she walked into the auditorium,
she grew nervous, but once she saw her friends,
she relaxed a bit. 3. At 930 A.M. her mother
drove her to school for the audition.
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• Auditions for Fame were held Saturday from 1000
  A.M. to 200 P.M. in the auditorium. Julie woke
  up early that morning to finish reading the play.
  At 930 A.M. her mother drove her to school for
  the audition. As she walked into the auditorium,
  she grew nervous, but once she saw her friends,
  she relaxed a bit. During auditions, Julie read
  a few scenes and did a monologue. At the end of
  auditions, Mrs. Martinez announced that callback
  would be posted outside her door on Monday.

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• On Saturday morning we visited the White House.
  More than 58,000 names of American soldiers who
  died in the war are carved into this memorial.
  Finally our day ended at the Tidal Basin where we
  rented paddleboats for a ride on the water. Last
  weekend my history class visited Washington, D.C.
  The statue of Abraham Lincoln is 19 feet high
  and faces the Reflecting Pool, another attraction
  in D.C.