Timeline
A literacy strategy resource from the National FFA Organization that teaches students to identify and organize important items or events in a sequential manner. It includes a description of the strategy, learning objectives, and a reproducible student graphic organizer for constructing a five-point timeline (with images and descriptions) about a topic or event that has changed over time.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Evaluate a given topic or event to identify the important components.
- Construct a timeline of significant or important components for a given topic or event.
- Description
- A strategy that allows students to identify and organize important items or events in a sequential manner.
- Example Activities
- This strategy can be used to assist students with identifying significant or important events/topics and organizing them in a sequential way. This also allows students to create a visual representation of the evolution of an event/topic.
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Aligned Standards
Common Core – Language
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.6Acquire and use accurately general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level; demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.
Common Core – Reading: Informational Text
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.9-10.1Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.9-10.2Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.9-10.4Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language of a court opinion differs from that of a newspaper).
Common Core – Writing
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.2Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.