Last Tuesday, the narrator met their new friend Mickey during a ball game at recess. Later that day, they played on the same team in a softball game and won. After the game, they traded baseball cards, and Mickey asked the narrator a question. The next morning, the narrator was able to answer Mickey's question, and their parents said the narrator would go to Mickey's family's apartment for dinner on his birthday in December.

2. Sequence is the
order in which
events happen.

3. Certain words
can be sequence
clues.

4. first
next
last
then
finally

5. in the morning
after that
later that day
two weeks later

6. yesterday
Saturday
Fall
August

7. Now be a sequence
detective. See if you can
spot the signal words in
the following story.

8. Last Tuesday I met my new friend
Mickey. We were both in a ball
game at recess. I told him he had
made a good catch during the
game. Later that day we played in a
softball game. We were on the
same team and we won!

9. Last Tuesday I met my new friend
Mickey. We were both in a ball
game at recess. I told him he had
made a good catch during the
game. Later that day we played in a
softball game. We were on the
same team and we won!

10. After the game, we traded
some baseball cards, and
then he said he wanted to
ask me something. After he
finished talking, we walked
to the bus stop.

11. After the game, we traded
some baseball cards, and
then he said he wanted to
ask me something. After he
finished talking, we walked
to the bus stop.

12. The next morning, I was able to
answer his question. My
parents said that I would go to
his family’s apartment to have
dinner with him on his
birthday, December 6.

13. The next morning, I was able to
answer his question. My
parents said that I would go to
his family’s apartment to have
dinner with him on his
birthday, December 6.

14. What would happen if some events from
Wilma Unlimited happened out of sequence?
 What if Wilma got Polio after she went to
college and started her running career?
 What if Wilma wasn’t born in 1940 and born
in 2000 instead? What events from the story
would be different? Why?