Comprehension
scaffolding tracker
skill: Sequence of Events
lesson 6
Sequence of Events
Teach/Practice
Review/Reteach
Introduced in Stage B Teacher’s Edition, p. 37
Introduced in FLEX Teacher’s Edition, p. 37
Introduced in FLEX II Teacher’s Edition, p. 37
Teach
Explain to students that this article is about the history of movie making.
Tell them that keeping track of the order of events will help them better
understand the article. As students read, ask them to keep in mind the
important dates given in the article, and to look for signal words such as
today, long ago, then, before, finally, and after.
student objectives
•Identify the sequence of events in a
nonfiction article.
•Identify signal words that indicate a
sequence of events.
guided Practice
Distribute “Lights, Camera, Action!,” page 415. Read each paragraph
with students, asking them the following comprehension questions. To
better monitor students’ understanding of this strategy, you may wish to
have them do some work as a group and some independently.
build background
Discuss students’ favorite movies. Then ask
if they have ever seen movies without sound,
or in black and white. Share the following
background:
Paragraph1 What was Hollywood like before it became part of
Los Angeles? (It was a farming community.) When did Hollywood
become part of Los Angeles? (1910)
•Hollywood, California, is part of the city
of Los Angeles.
Paragraph2 Where were movies made first: in New York,
New Jersey, and Chicago, or in Hollywood? (New York, New Jersey
and Chicago) How do you know? (Movies were made in these cities
from 1890–1910. Movies weren’t made in Hollywood until 1910.)
•Movies were first made in the late 1890s,
in black and white. Since they had no
sound, the movies were called silent
movies. To show feelings, actors
exaggerated their gestures.
Paragraph3 Describe in order the events that took place if you
went to a movie in 1915. (You paid a few cents, you entered the
theater, the lights dimmed, and a piano player began to play.)
•Movie film is made up of a series of frames.
A projector runs these frames in fast
sequence.
Paragraph4 What time-order words do you see in this paragraph?
(long ago, today, throughout the years)
apply
Distribute the Graphic Organizer, page 510. Tell students to label the
boxes as shown at left. Then have them use the organizer to show the
sequence of events in the history of Hollywood and movie making.
Possible answers for Apply activity.
Early 1900s
Hollywood was a small farming community.
From 1890 to 1910
Movies were made in New York, New Jersey, and Chicago.
Extend
Have students construct a time line of yesterday’s events or of all the
things they did that morning before coming to school.
1910
People began making movies in Hollywood because it was warm
and sunny all year long, and there was a lot of open space.
After 1927
Movies had sound in them.
GraphicOrganizer,page510
resource links
1 RDI Book 1: p. 329
SaM Keyword: Sequence
READ 180 Reading Skills and Strategies
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