1. TELLING PROCEDURES
SEQUENCING IDEAS, EVENTS OR
STEPS

2. THIS PATTERN IS USED FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF
TWO KINDS OF MATERIAL:
1. Events ordered by time; history, biography
2. Steps in a process; the steps in an
experiment, directions for building something.
Example of a paragraph: (biography)
Albert Einstein was born near the end of the 1800s in
Ulm, Germany. He graduated from the University of Zurich
in Switzerland at the age of 26. Fourteen years later, he won
the Nobel Prize for physics. For the next ten years, he lived
in Germany. Then, in the early 1930s, he had to leave
Germany because of Hitler and Nazi party. He moved to the
United States, where he lived until the time of his death at
the age of 74. He lived a long and productive life.

3. THE IMPORTANT IDEAS IS THAT THINGS HAPPEN IN A CERTAIN
ORDER. SOME SIGNAL WORDS FOR THE SEQUENCE PATTERN:
First at last
Finally at the same time
Next
Later
Last
Before
After
while

4. 2. STEPS IN A PROCESS
Example of the paragraph:
Making orange juice concentrate from fresh oranges
is done entirely by machines. First, oranges are
dumped into a moving belt. They travel into a
machine which washes them with detergent. Next,
they are rolled into juicing machines, where seven
hundred oranges per minute are split and squeezed.
Then the rinds (the skin of the oranges) are thrown
out the end of along tube. At the same time, the juice
goes through small holes in the bottom of the tube.
Next, the juice goes into another machine called the
finisher. There the seeds and other tiny objects are
removed. Last, the juice goes into large tanks, where
most of the water is removed.

5. Each underlined signal word points to a step in
the process of making orange juice concentrate.
Write the steps in the process that follow each
signal word.
Signal words Steps
First
…………………………………..
Next
…………………………………..
Then
…………………………………..
At the same time
…………………………………..
Next
…………………………………..