Writing Sequence Changes Worksheets

Related ELA Standard: W.7.3.C

Core Standard

There is a certain art into the way an author positions the sequences that his work goes through. The goal is to make the overall experience clear and easy to follow for the reader. In many cases authors will prefer to tell a story in a basic chronological event structure. You can greatly enhance a work by sharing bits and pieces of the past or future of a character which can tell the reader why they may make questionable choices throughout the work. These worksheets will help students learn the how position events throughout a story that enhance the uptake of the work.

Writing Sequence Changes Worksheets:

My Morning Goes Something Like... – Tells us all about your typical morning.

Using Transition Words to Move Through Time – We ask you to research the making of the Washington Monument.

New Surroundings – A lost dog and some girls go sight seeing.

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch... – Silent movies used that line all the time and now you will too.

$100, Malls, Bedrooms, and Classes – This story really will jump around for you.

Shifting Back and Forth Between Settings – Write a short story that transitions back and forth between two settings.

Another Time and Place – Describe, in detail, how things have changed at Thomas Jefferson's House.

Bullies, the Cafeteria, the Office – There should be a clear hierarchy of events here for you.

When Grandma Was My Age... – What was life like when your grandparents were children?

Expressing Changes in Time – Describe, in detail, how you think the world we live in might change over five, ten and twenty years.

Using Transition Words With Time Shifts – Research what archeologists believe were the steps involved in these mammoth construction projects.

Shifting Time – Think of a place that you know well, and that you have been familiar with over at least several years.

Setting Shifts – The story should involve two related events.

The Battle of Antietam – Research what the battlefields at Antietam were like during the Civil War, and what it is like for tourists today.

Summer Vacation – Explain in detail what you did during your last summer vacation.

Tips for Writing Sequence Changes


While writing anything descriptive or narrative, one needs to experiment with a lot of sequences and writing events in different orders. Sometimes, the writers add the middle of a description to the end or the start to make the story more suspenseful and interesting to read. In other texts, experimenting with the sequence is just an option for the writer and changing it does not alter or affect the story at all. Some of the most useful tips to write the changes in sequences are as follows:


Divide Sequences in Chapters


Whenever a new scene in the sequence has to be described, you should try to make it a part of a new chapter. If the whole story of text is going in a flow and order and you have to make a change in sequence somewhere in the middle, you should try to end one idea and start a new idea where the sequence changes. This clarity of ideas is necessary for the understanding of the reader especially in a text where the sequence changes a lot.


Use Ascending or Descending Order


In a text with a lot of changes in the sequences, it is better to stick with either the ascending or descending order to ensure clarity of the text and ease for the reader while they read. If a writer wants to keep things simple, he or she should try narrating the event in ascending order with a little bit change in the sequence within the main ideas. However, in case a writer is aiming to arouse suspense in his or her readers, writing in descending order would be more useful.


Focus of Clarity


In a text having numerous sequence changes, the clarity of the ideas becomes an issue for many readers. It is better to be as simple and clear with your writings as you can to convey the ideas even when there are a lot of changes in sequence.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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