1. UNIT 2- MIGRATION STORIES
Lesson 12: Sequencing

2. INDEPENDENT READING
 Get an SSR book and read for 15 minutes.
 On page 11 of your workbooks write 1 important
details that you found in your SSR book.
 Be sure to include all parts (Date, Title, etc.)
 Record your reading on page 33 of your workbook

3. WORD STUDY
Betray
 Betrayed, Betrayal
(verb) To be disloyal to

4. WORD STUDY
Misery
 Miserably
 (noun) A feeling of great distress or discomfort
of mind or body

5. WORD STUDY
Sequence
(verb) To arrange in a particular order


6. READ-ALOUD/THINK-ALOUD
 Recap
 Strategy: Summarization
 Read Pages 94-101 of A Family Apart
 Look for the Target Words
 Stopping points
 Page 96
 Page 101, Paragraph 1

7. CLASSROOM CONVERSATION
Index Card
Conversation

8. WHOLE CLASS INSTRUCTION
SEQUENCING

9. SEQUENCING
 Events in: A Family Apart
 Families chose children from among the orphans on
the platform.
 Mike was arrested for picking a man’s pocket.
 On the way West, orphans helped put out a brush
fire and met outlaws.
 Reverend Brace took the Kelly siblings to the
Children’s Aid Society.
 The orphans boarded a paddle wheeler to travel to
Albany.

10. SEQUENCING
Sample Sentences with
Sequence Signals sheet
We will complete the first
three together
Sequence Signals Sheet

11. INDIVIDUAL/SMALL GROUP WORK
Task One: Sequencing
 Each of you will receive a
copy of “Scrambled
Sentences for Sequencing”
 Complete the sheet in pairs

12. INDIVIDUAL/SMALL GROUP WORK
Task Two: Writing
 Add to your writing about
a move.
 How did it make you feel?

13. HOMEWORK
Find a short newspaper
article and highlight either
the signal words that show
comparison/contrast or the
ones that show sequence.
Bring the article to class
tomorrow.