Help your kindergarten students learn about sequencing and science as they learn about the five stages in a ladybugs life.

Use this graphic organizer to help students plan their personal narratives by drawing what will happen. Thinking about the beginning, middle, and end of their narratives encourages young writers to stretch out the small moments they write about.

Ask your kindergarten students to help Sam get ready in the right order. In this activity, students will learn about sequencing.

Writing personal narratives requires students to be able to stretch out small moments into beginnings, middles, and ends. Help your budding writer practice this skill by thinking how they could stretch out a story related to friends.

Children discover how a paragraph resembles an inverted traffic light, with its topic, supporting, and closing sentences.