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Kindergarten · English Language Arts · Unit 6 of 14

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.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: K.6(D); K.7(C) · retelling 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 Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 6 of 14 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: Texas Education Agency (TEA)

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

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

    • 🛁Take a bath
    • 😴Go to sleep
    • 📖Read a story

  2. Question 2

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

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

  3. Question 3

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

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

  4. Question 4

    What happened first?

    Leo lost his ball.

    He looked under his bed.

    He found it in the garden!

    • ⚽He found the ball
    • 🛏️He looked under the bed
    • 😟Leo lost his ball

  5. Question 5

    What happened at the end?

    Priya and her dad mixed a cake.

    They baked it in the oven.

    Then they shared it with friends.

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

  6. Question 6

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

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

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