Soup Day Sequencing

Activity Overview

Sequencing is the ability to arrange information in an order that makes sense. It is an important skill for young learners because it helps them make sense of unfamiliar situations, identify patterns, and make predictions. This activity asks students to correctly sequence a familiar story. Retelling the story with the picture cards helps build early sequencing skills and the extension allows children to build upon these skills.

What You Need

• Soup Day by Melissa Iwai

• Soup Day Sequencing Cards and Mats (Cut the cards in half so that one image is on each card)

Steps

1. Read Soup Day by Melissa Iwai.

2. Look at the pictures on the sequencing cards. Discuss the different steps that the girl and her mother take to prepare the vegetables for the soup they are making. Utilize language that emphasizes the sequential steps the characters took, such as first, next, then, after that, last.

3. Use the sequencing cards and mats to retell the steps from the story by placing the images in the order in which they occurred in the story.

Guiding Questions

• What did the girl do first? Next? Then? After that? Last?

Extensions

• If your student is ready, add in additional steps for them to sequence. Print the Soup Day Extension Sequencing Cards and Mats to repeat the same activity with four or five steps.

• Sequence the events of one of your favorite books. Read the book, prepare sequencing cards of main events (draw pictures, print pictures from the internet, or scan pages of the book), and use the sequencing cards and mats to retell the story!