
Twelve cards, four stories, three stages each. Reassemble them.
The difficulty is deliberate. With four stories mixed together the child cannot sequence by position alone and has to use content, which is what makes this harder than the single sequence sheets.
The four plants are rice, mango, banana and bean, chosen because their life cycles look genuinely different from each other.
The page has the twelve cards, a working mat with four rows, and a difficulty reduction for children who stall, which is simply to hand them the four beginnings already placed. We use that reduction often and it converts frustration into success without changing what is learned.
Eric Gonzalez-Payne
Founder and curriculum author
Ed.M. in Educational Leadership, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Published by Empathy Global LLC
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