Chronological Order Text Structure Lesson

Chronological Order Text Structure

Objective: I can identify where and why the author

organizes their ideas in chronological order.

Open Ended

What do you know about chronological order text structure?

Key Vocabulary and Concepts

Organization is “the internal structure of a piece
of writing, the thread of central meaning, the
pattern and the sequence…”(Education
Northwest, “What are the Traits”, 2012).

Chronological/Sequential Order is when the
set of events/steps in a process are presented in
the order in which they happened.

Chronological Order is especially useful to
develop ideas in:

●Historical texts describing a particular
event/series of events.

●Scientific texts that explain steps in a process
/procedure(ie. To explain how a species evolves).

Signal Words:

Additionally, afterward, another, as soon
as,before, during, finally, first, following,
immediately, initially, last, later, meanwhile,
next, not long
after, now, on (date), preceding,
second, soon, then, third,
today, tomorrow, until, when,
yesterday

Open Ended

Summarize what you understand about what chronological order is, where it is used, why it is used and what to look for when identifying it.

Core Text: “High Fliers” packet

Purpose for reading: To understand why chronological order is important.

As you read “ High Fliers”, think about and discuss the following with a
partner:

●Is the whole text or only part chronological? How can you tell?

●How do the text features add to or detract from the text structure? How
do they help develop the author’s central idea?

●Why is it important to that this text is written in chronological order?
How does it help in the development of the central idea?

●What are some weather topics that might be best written about in
chronological order?

Core Text: “High Fliers” packet

Purpose for reading: To understand why chronological
order is important.

● As a class, we will decide and highlight the top six

events of the topic.

● As a class, we will go over the writing prompt and

then you will complete it on your own.

Independent Reading Focus

●

Look through the book bins, SORA and online to find a text about a
specific weather event about your weather topic that happened in the
past (ie. Hurricane Katrina)

●

Get a Chronological Order organizer on paper or in This Week’s
assignments.

●

Read your book/text silently.

●

Talk with your topic partner about the event and how it fits into
chronological order.

●

Be ready to share out.

Writing

● Complete the Chronological Order organizer.
● Go to This Week’s Assignments and open the Quick

Write assignment.

● Write about why you think your author chose to write

about the topic in this text structure and how you think it
gets the central idea across.