A good strategy for helping primary students understand sequence is to provide a “sequence frame” to get them started. You can use a simple one such as this to help students identify the key events of the story:

1. The name of the story is:

2. The author is:

3. A problem happened in the story when:

4. First,

5. Then,

6. The problem was finally solved when:

Once students understand the concept and are able to identify the sequential elements, discontinuethe frame and have students summarize the story in a cohesive paragraph.