First, Next, Then, Last Sequencing Worksheets

About this resource

A child who can read four short sentences is not always ready to say what happened first. Here a made-up story comes in four picture steps, printed out of order: read each one, look at the picture, and put it back together as First, Next, Then, Last.

EVERYTHING INSIDE (29 pages)

• 14 student pages: 8 Cut and Glue pages (16 stories, 2 a page), 3 Color, Cut and Glue pages (6 stories, 2 a page), 2 Read and Circle the Order pages with no scissors (8 stories, 4 a page), and 1 Order Helper page
• 30 invented short stories, each exactly 4 parts with ONE correct order, and 80 pictures across them
• 1 answer key, generated from the same story data as the pages: every story's correct order and its scrambled printed order
• 1 tracker (all 30 stories), 1 class progress grid
• 1 team note page and 1 home page (a weekly practice checklist, no scissors needed at home)
• 1 filled example (an invented student), 1 phrase bank (16 starters)
• 1 binder cover and 4 divider tabs with a spine label to cut out
• Start Here, a how-to-read-a-page page and a contents page that gives every page number

The Three Formats

1. Cut and Glue (8 pages, 16 stories, 2 a page) — four picture tiles print in a scrambled order on a strip; cut them apart and glue each one into a box labeled First, Next, Then or Last.

2. Color, Cut and Glue (3 pages, 6 stories, 2 a page) — the same task, and the picture prints as a light outline to color first.

3. Read and Circle the Order, no scissors (2 pages, 8 stories, 4 a page) — the four pictures print in a scrambled order with no cutting; the child reads each one and circles 1, 2, 3 or 4 to say when it happens.

Each page is marked with dots, not words, so the children at one table cannot see who has which format.

Built For The Child Holding The Page

A big "My name" line, one short instruction with a picture, large rounded letters, and a picture for every part of every story. Nothing on a student page is written for an adult.

Easy Cutting

Every cutting page carries TWO stories (eight tiles, two strips of four), never one, so every cutting page has at least five pieces to cut, edge to edge, in a strip. Tiles are at least 0.9 inches on a side. No story's strip ever prints a step in its own correct box — a rule the file checks, not a guess.

The Stories

All 30 stories are made up for this resource and told in four short sentences; none describes a real event or a real student. Each part has exactly one pictured thing, and that word appears in its own sentence. No health or student information is pre-filled anywhere in this file.

Pictures That Name Their Word

The 80 pictures are Google Noto Emoji, each checked against Microsoft Fluent Emoji High Contrast. Words this store has already found ambiguous were left out on purpose (a hen that reads as "chicken" rather than "hen," a banana that goes pale in grayscale, a mitten that is the same picture as a glove).

Type In, Or Print

The name and date lines, the tracker, the class grid, the team note and the home page are type-in fields in any PDF reader. The pages print clean in black and white. This is a fillable PDF; it is not a Google Slides or PowerPoint file.

Who This Is For

Kindergarten and first grade classrooms, self-contained and resource rooms, and any teacher working with an older student who still needs practice putting a short story in order. The home page sends the same job to a family with no scissors required; the team note hands off what changed since the last meeting.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

Sequencing practice with the record-keeping around it. It is not a probe, a goal bank or a score sheet, not a reading assessment, and not a claim about any student's age or rate of progress.