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Ellen Moore Short Story Sequencing PDF – Free Printable Reading Activity

This FREE Ellen Moore Short Story Sequencing PDF is a simple yet powerful tool for developing reading comprehension, logical thinking, and narrative structure understanding. Students are presented with a short story out of order and must use clues to reconstruct the correct sequence of events.

What Is This Resource?

This printable activity is based on a short story by Ellen Moore. It’s designed to engage students in reading and reordering sentences or paragraphs so they can better understand story elements such as beginning, middle, and end, as well as cause and effect.

What’s Included:

• Printable PDF worksheet with Ellen Moore’s short story (scrambled version)
• Answer key for teachers
• Optional discussion questions and vocabulary support
• Supports Common Core reading standards

How to Use:

1. Read the story segments with students
2. Have them cut and paste or number the events in the correct order
3. Discuss sequencing clues such as time words or character actions

Why Teachers Love It:

• Improves comprehension and narrative understanding
• No prep – just print and go!
• Ideal for ESL students or reluctant readers
• Encourages group discussion and storytelling skills

Extension Ideas:

• Ask students to rewrite the story from a different perspective
• Use as a warm-up to teach beginning-middle-end story writing
• Turn the story into a comic strip with sequenced panels

This is a digital product. No physical item will be shipped.

Who Is It For?

Ellen Moore Short Story Sequencing PDF is ideal for elementary to lower-intermediate ESL learners, literacy groups, reading intervention, and homeschool settings.

Build Better Comprehension Through Story Order

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