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Kindergarten · English Language Arts · Unit 6 of 16

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.

New York State Learning Standards learning standard: KR2; KR3 · 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 New York

In the New York State Learning Standards, this is unit 6 of 16 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: New York State Education Department (NYSED)

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?

    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

  2. Question 2

    What happened at the end?

    Zoe went to the library.

    She picked a book about bugs.

    At bedtime, her mom read it to her.

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

  3. Question 3

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

    • 🥣Eat breakfast
    • ⏰Wake up
    • 🎒Go to school

  4. Question 4

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

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

  5. Question 5

    What happened in the middle?

    Priya and her dad mixed a cake.

    They baked it in the oven.

    Then they shared it with friends.

    • 🍰They shared it
    • ⏲️They baked it
    • 🥣They mixed the cake

  6. Question 6

    What happened first?

    Ana's dog jumped in the mud.

    Ana gave him a bath.

    Now he is clean and happy!

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

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