LEARN NC

K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

I teach at Erwin Middle School in Asheville, NC, and I have taught middle school students for the past thirty-one years. Reading skills such as chronological order are valuable comprehension tools, and I find this to be a helpful activity.

Resources created by Judy Gibbs

Christmas Carol Chronology
Christmas Carol Chronology, based on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, provides students with an opportunity to develop comprehension by listing plot developments and arranging them sequentially. This lesson begins with cooperative learning groups and ends with an individual manipulative activity of cutting and pasting strips of events in chronological order.
Format: lesson plan (grade 4–8 English Language Arts)
By Judy Gibbs.