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Grade 2 English Language Arts · Level 3, Understand, recount, and analyze literary texts using details from words and illustrations.

Put the Plot in Order

Identify and sequence major story events and distinguish the beginning, middle development, and ending.

How the lesson starts: Put the Plot in Order

1. All aboard!

   All aboard! Meet Conductor Kit, a fox who drives the Story Train. Every story event rides in its own train car. The cars must go in the right order. If not, the story gets silly!

2. Pablo's Pancakes

   Here is today's story. Pablo wanted to make pancakes for Dad's birthday. He mixed the batter. Then he flipped a pancake way too high. Splat! It stuck to the ceiling! At last, Pablo and Dad ate pancakes together.

3. Three cars in order

   Let's hook up three cars. What happened first? Pablo mixed the batter. Next? The pancake stuck to the ceiling. Last? They ate pancakes together. Time words like then and at last help too!