Simple Steps to Sequencing across the curriculum!

Let's put things in logical order...

As a child grows as an active learner, their ability to explore skills and concepts in more challenging and abstract ways increases. Sequencing skills are extremely important in everyday life and in the new language curriculum sequencing has it's own learning outcome. Retelling and elaborating in sequence plays an important role in the development of a child's language skills and comprehension of written texts. It is one of those foundation skills that children will use to build on other skills in the future, while also helping children to recognise patterns that make the world around them more predictable and understandable. There are plenty of daily activities that offer opportunities to practice those important sequencing skills... story time, aistear play, P.E., art. Most activities  involve some form of sequencing. Sequencing can be practiced in a simple two minute activity, a whole lesson or even a whole class  project worked on over a week. Ideally the language of sequencing could be integrated into most lessons.

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