Temporal and Transition Words Anchor Chart for Narrative Writing Prompts

Get these sequence writing visuals and turn your first and second grade students into better writers. This kid friendly temporal and transition word anchor chart will be a handy bulletin board reference for your 1st and 2nd grade students as they work on narrative writing prompts. Your students just select a sentence starter off this bulletin board display or their own collage to show event order and move closer to mastering that narrative writing standard. Watch their writing improve!

CCSS.ELS-Literacy.W.1.3:

Write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide some sense of closure.

CCSS.ELS-Literacy.W.2.3:

Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.

This includes:

• colorful stop light words
• black and white stop light words
• 2 BEGIN choices: first, in the beginning
• 5 CONTINUE choices: next, then, later, after that, meanwhile
• 4 END choices: last, finally, in the end, at the end
• small versions of BEGIN, CONTINUE, and END choices
• student stoplight - full page
• directions on printing and creating your own stop light bulletin board

Provide visual support for your students so that they can improve their writing skills. Assemble the large stoplight anchor chart on your bulletin board and gradually add words as you model and build an expectation that students will use the transition words in their own writing.

Print your temporal word stoplight and help your students become skilled writers.

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