Make sequencing meaningful with familiar routines students recognize from school, home and everyday life!
This low-prep kindergarten resource uses real-life photographs to help students observe details, arrange events in order, explain their thinking and predict what may happen next. Students practise using important sequencing vocabulary, including first, next, then, last, before and after.
Inside, you will find:
• 36 real-photo sequencing cards
• 12 familiar three-step sequences
• Classroom, at-home and everyday-life routines
• Three-step and four-step sequencing mats
• “What Happens Next?” prediction cards
• Sequence Detectives activities
• Oral-language sentence stems
• Cut, order and explain student pages
• A create-your-own-sequence activity
• Teacher quick-start guide
• Differentiation and curriculum connections
• Sequencing observation checklist
• Family connection cards
• Suggested answer key
The routines include arriving at school, washing hands, using art materials, cleaning up, brushing teeth, getting dressed, making a snack, bedtime, planting a seed, crossing the street safely, mailing a letter and caring for a pet.
Use this resource during:
• Whole-group modelling
• Small-group instruction
• Literacy centres
• Oral-language lessons
• Assessment and intervention
• Independent practice
• English-language learning support
Begin with the three-step routines and introduce four-step sequencing as students become more confident. The photographs provide meaningful visual support for emerging communicators, multilingual learners and students who benefit from concrete examples.
Designed for Kindergarten, Pre-K and Grade 1 support. Connections are included for Ontario FDK 2026 and U.S. Common Core learning expectations.
Simply print, cut and laminate the reusable cards. Add them to a centre, use them during guided instruction or keep them nearby for quick oral-language practice.
