Sequencing Sort Writing Center

Do your students struggle with sequencing? Often times, students are asked to read a paragraph or short story and sequence a set of pictures based on what they've read. This only allows for one correct answer and can cause frustration to those students who always seem to get one picture out of order. In pairing sequencing with writing, students are given more opportunities for success! Students get to decide the order they think makes the most logical sense. As long as students can explain the order they chose in a way that makes sense their answer is correct (even if their order is different from a classmate's order). For example, on picture set A (baking a pie), most students will put the ingredients first, the oven second and the pie last and explain that, "first you mix the ingredients, next you put the pie in the oven to bake and last you take the pie out and eat it". However, some students may put the oven first, then the ingredients, and the pie last. If in their explanation the