Sequencing - Where The Wild Things Are

Today we began working on a new comprehension skill. This skill is sequencing. 

I chose to use one of my all time favorite books, Where The Wild Things Are, to teach this skill. 

Where the wild things are begins with a little boy acting like a wild boy in his house. His mother sends him to bed with out dinner and while he is in his room his imagination runs wild. 

Before we read I told the students to be thinking about what their favorite part of the book is. 

After we read I asked them to illustrate their favorite part of the story.  The illustrations were great. We were able to create a time line of events in the story using their illustrations. 

The series of events moves from top left to top right, bottom left to bottom right. 

This set of illustrations moves the same direction as the previous set. 

These are now displayed in the hallway. Tomorrow we will use order of time words to captions each group of illustrations.