Today while C was in OT I chatted with his ST in the waiting room about what they are working on right now. She said that they are focusing on sequencing. C's language skills have evolved to the point where he can "tell stories" with a decent amount of detail, but when questioned he sometimes gets the order of events mixed up.
I asked what we can do at home to work on this skill and the ST suggested that we photocopy the pages from a favorite story (making sure we cut the numbers off the pages LOL). We are then to read the story using the book. Then the photocopied pages are laid out on the floor in a random order. Then I'm to pull out a page and ask C, what happened here? Then, what happened next? And have him answer the question and find the page that showed what happened next. And so on. This is also a visual way to reinforce reading comprehension.
I thought it sounded like an interesting thing to do. I know we're all looking for practical things we can do at home with our kids so I thought I'd share this. I'm going to give it a shot starting tomorrow and we'll see how it goes.
That does sound interesting, I'll keep in mind when we get to that level. Right now we are just working on simple cards and what comes 1st, 2nd, and 3rd.Great suggestion Kristy, thanks. This is an area my son also stuggles with. Not sure he's quite as far along as "C" in being able to tell a story. I do think the visual cues would help him, however, in being able to "put it all together". That's a great idea. We use story sequencing cards. My son has no problem putting them in order (visual performance aspect), but has a great deal of difficulty telling the story, which is what we are targeting at this point. We are now getting into 6 step sequences. They also suggested we take pictures of us doing an activity like fixing dinner or setting the table. Take a picture of each step and then do the same thing Kristy was saying.Great idea. I realized my son has trouble in this area when he was preparing for show-n-tell about summer vacation. He was unable to "make a long story short" and tell things in a meaningful sequence.
I'm going to try this today.
Our school has LOTs of exercise where the kids cut and paste pictures (provided) into an order Left to right, top top bottom) for a story, after reading a story. Look on the homeschooling sites or kg worksheets online. In Kg it is 3 pix ... now expanded in grade 1 to six or even SEVEN.
If you can tolerate it, DORA is a great way to reinforce sequencing skills!
Also, consistently using the same words to describe sequence, "First, and then, and next, finally (or at last)."
I also had a set of story sequencing cards and it helped.
I agree, I've seen some great websites that you can print out the sequences and they can color as well.
Also, computer software. I think it might be, Jumpstart Advanced Kindergaten that has some sequencing activities.