After the success of the first volume, which has already sold more than 10,000 copies, a second volume has been added to the series with 20 brand new stories for understanding temporal and causal sequences.

Text Comprehension with Temporal Sequencing ( Volume 1 e Volume 2 ) are workbooks designed for primary school teachers, support teachers, speech therapists and educators who deal with expression difficulty recovery. The stories presented in both volumes have been inspired by daily life and describe simple events, so that they are more understandable for children ages 6 and up.

Awareness of the role of the temporal order of events is gradually reached during cognitive development. Knowing how to read means being able to decipher written text and fully understand its meaning. But often, children approach reading thinking that to understand, it is sufficient to know the meaning of all the words present in the text. These books offer an effective tool for teachers who want to implement strategic teaching of reading and comprehension of the text.

STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK

The volumes are structured in two parts:

The first part contains 20 stories. At the end of each one, you will find activities that focus mainly on exercises aimed at understanding the sequentiality of events within the story.  They are structured in 5 worksheets, through which the child will:

• reconstruct the story by sequencing the events represented with images;
• reconstruct the story putting the events in the correct order, this time represented by sentences;
• understand if the given phrases about story are true or false;
• complete a section of the text where some of the words have been removed;
• elaborate the text in writing.

Here’s a short excerpt from the book with some examples of the activity sheets (picture sequencing, sentence sequencing, true/false questions, fill in the blanks, written elaboration).

In the second part of the volume, you can find the complete story sequence in pictures to be cut out. This type of material is a valid aid to support and implement activities, creating individualized programmes.

THE AUTHOR

Elisa Quintarelli is a speech therapist specialized in diagnosis and rehabilitation of children with speech delays and dyslexia.