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Kindergarten · English Language Arts · Unit 6 of 12

Story Order

First, next and last

What your child practices

Putting events in order, and listening to short stories to tell what happened at the beginning, middle and end.

Alaska content standards learning standard: RL.K.2; RL.K.3 · retelling what happens at the beginning, middle and end of a story

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Stories happen in order: first, next, last.
  2. Ask: what happens first?
  3. Then what? How does it end?

Example: Put in order: a chick, an egg, it hatches. First there is an egg. Next, it hatches. Last, a little chick. Answer: An egg → It hatches → A little chick

Story Order in Alaska

In the Alaska content standards, this is unit 6 of 12 in Kindergarten English Language Arts, after Sight Words and before Book Detectives.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Alaska Department of Education and Early Development

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    What happened in the middle?

    Ana's dog jumped in the mud.

    Ana gave him a bath.

    Now he is clean and happy!

    • 🐶He is clean and happy
    • 🐾The dog got muddy
    • 🛁He had a bath

  2. Question 2

    What happened at the end?

    Maya planted a seed.

    She watered it every day.

    A big sunflower grew!

    • 💧She watered it
    • 🌻A sunflower grew
    • 🌱Maya planted a seed

  3. Question 3

    Tap the pictures in order: first, next, last.

    • 🐛A caterpillar
    • 🥚A tiny egg
    • 🦋A butterfly

  4. Question 4

    Tap the pictures in order: first, next, last.

    • 😋Eat it up
    • 🥪Make a sandwich
    • 🍞Get some bread

  5. Question 5

    Tap the pictures in order: first, next, last.

    • 📄Get some paper
    • 🖼️Hang it up
    • 🖌️Paint a picture

  6. Question 6

    What happened in the middle?

    Dark clouds filled the sky.

    Rain fell on Amir's umbrella.

    Then a rainbow came out!

    • ☔Rain fell
    • 🌈A rainbow came out
    • ☁️Clouds filled the sky

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