Action Chains

Students learn to elaborate on an event in a narrative by expanding their sentences into action chains. Expanding single actions into an action chain provides the reader with a more detailed picture of an event in a narrative. Students think logically to elaborate in order to develop a sequence of events.

Standards & Objectives

Learning objectives: 

Students will:

  • expand sentences into action chains.
  • revise their own stories by adding action chains.

Lesson Variations

Blooms taxonomy level: 
Understanding

Helpful Hints

Materials:

  • Action Chains Transparency
  • overhead markers

References

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