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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.

Arizona Academic Standards learning standard: K.RL.2; K.RL.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 Arizona

In the Arizona Academic 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: Arizona Department of Education

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 at the end?

    Snow fell all night.

    In the morning, Kenji made a snowman.

    Then the sun came out and it melted.

    • 💧The snowman melted
    • ❄️Snow fell
    • ⛄Kenji made a snowman

  2. Question 2

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

    • ✉️Put it in an envelope
    • 📮Mail it
    • ✏️Write a card

  3. Question 3

    What happened in the middle?

    Zoe went to the library.

    She picked a book about bugs.

    At bedtime, her mom read it to her.

    • 🌙Mom read it at bedtime
    • 📚Zoe went to the library
    • 🐞She picked a bug book

  4. Question 4

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

    • 🌈A rainbow comes out
    • ☁️Clouds come
    • 🌧️Rain falls

  5. Question 5

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

    • ☀️The sun melts it
    • ❄️Snow falls
    • ⛄We make a snowman

  6. Question 6

    What happened first?

    Ana's dog jumped in the mud.

    Ana gave him a bath.

    Now he is clean and happy!

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

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