Support your students in strengthening their comprehension with the flexible and visual Sequencing: General Comprehension Worksheets. These templates are designed to be used with any text or text type, helping students organise and summarise what they’ve read using a clear sequencing structure.

Students will divide the text into logical sections and represent each part using a combination of written and visual responses. With options to sequence into three, five or eight parts, and the flexibility to use pre-labelled or blank section titles, these worksheets are perfect for differentiation across year levels or ability groups.

Key Learning Outcomes:

• ✅ Practise the comprehension strategy of sequencing
• ✅ Summarise key events or ideas from a text
• ✅ Organise information visually using story mapping
• ✅ Develop skills for retelling, reviewing and analysing text structure

What’s Included:

• Story map templates in three, five and eight-section formats
• Blank, 12mm and 9mm line versions
• Editable PowerPoint and ready-to-print PDF files
• Instructions for individual, small group or whole class use

Materials Needed:

• Printed worksheets
• Pencils or pens
• Optional: coloured pencils for drawing summaries
• Optional: enlarged A3 templates for modelling or group work

How to Use:

• • Choose the number of sections appropriate to the text or student level
• • Students label each section or use provided headings
• • Write and draw a summary for each part of the text
• • Share story maps in pairs or small groups to promote discussion

Ideas for Classroom Use:

• 💡 Use with any narrative, informative or procedural text
• 💡 Introduce as part of a guided reading session to support retelling
• 💡 Incorporate into literacy rotations or comprehension stations

Top Teacher Tips:

• 💛 Model sequencing with a class text before independent use
• 💛 Laminate blank templates to reuse with whiteboard markers
• 💛 Encourage creativity by allowing students to title their own sections

Sequencing: General Comprehension Worksheets make it easy to integrate the skill of sequencing into your literacy program, building comprehension through structure, visual thinking and creativity.

This resource is part of our comprehensive Comprehension Strategies Workbook PACKAGE.