AI Tutor
Imagine putting on your shoes before your socks! That would feel pretty silly and wouldn't work at all.
Just like getting dressed, stories and real events happen in a step-by-step order called a sequence.
How do we know which event happened first when reading a text?

Clues That Show Order

Authors use special clue words called transition words to show the order of time.
Clues can also be clock times like 8:00 AM, parts of the day like morning and night, or dates.
What happens when a book gives us facts that are mixed up?

Putting the Pieces Together

Let's be reading detectives and put three scrambled notes about Leo's fruit salad into the correct chronological order (the order they happened in time).
By spotting the clue words First, Next, and Finally, we can arrange Leo's steps from start to finish.
Be careful with tricky sentences like 'Before dinner, Mia washed her hands.' Mia washed her hands first, even though the word 'dinner' came earlier in the sentence!