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Imagine building a paper airplane, but you fold the wings before folding the middle crease. The plane will not fly!
In class, sports, and games, people give multi-step oral instructions—a series of spoken steps that you must carry out in the exact right order.
How do you know which step comes first when someone is talking fast?

Clue Words

Speakers use sequence words to signal the exact order of steps. Listening for these transition words tells your brain when one action ends and the next one begins.
How can you hold three or four steps in your head without forgetting one?

The 3-Step Strategy

When you hear oral directions, use the Listen-Picture-Count strategy. You listen for clue words, play a quick mental movie of yourself doing the action, and track the total number of steps on your fingers.
What happens when a speaker uses words like 'before' or 'after' out of order?

The Order Trap

Watch out: the order you hear instructions is not always the order you do them! When someone says, "Before you open your notebook, grab a pencil," grabbing the pencil is actually your first action.