TimeLiner


This program offers support for sequencing, making personal connections, and cause and effect. Students can create timeline of story events in a variety of formats, which helps them better visualize what the are reading.

Project Ideas | How to Directions | Related Links


Project Ideas:

Description

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Story Events- Custom Timeline

After reading any story, students can use TimeLiner to review the events of the story and write them in their own words.

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Borreguita and the Coyote

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Story Events- Custom Timeline

Another example of a custom timeline. This one sequences the events of Comet's Nine Lives by Jan Brett.

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Comet's Nine Lives

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Story Events- Custom Timeline

Students can sequence the steps of making bread as mentioned in The Little Red Hen.

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The Little Red Hen

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Story Events- Weekly Timeline

Students can use the weekly timeline option to retell the events of this familiar story.

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar


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The Very Hungry Kindergartner- Monthly Timeline

After reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar, students can write a new version of the story following the same pattern. Using the template to the right, student type in the names of the foods they would like to eat for each of the months listed (Ex. ate 1 hot dog, ate 2 ice cream cones). Students illustrate their timeline with crayons.


The Very Hungry Kindergartner

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download template
(requires TimeLiner 5)

Chapter Summaries- Slideshow View (TimeLiner 5)

Assign each student to summarize a chapter of a story. After finishing each chapter the assigned student can type his/her summary in TimeLiner. Then students create an illustration in Kid Pix. The Kid Pix pictures are copied into TimeLiner. Using the Slideshow option, present the summaries to your class. You can also print the slideshow pages to create a class book. A great one computer classroom activity!

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Charlotte's Web

view chapter 1 and 2

 

pictures and summaries taken
from this website

 

 


How to Directions: need Microsoft Word to view directions


Related Links:


TimeLiner Website

TimeLiner in Your Reading and Writing Curriculum- great booklet from Tom Snyder with lots of ideas
 


Special Thanks to the following teachers for opening their classrooms and sharing their ideas:

  • Lisa Cobb, Hollydale Elementary
  • Deborah Greening, Hollydale Elementary
  • Jenni Eitenmiller, Austell Elementary