From Seed to Plant: How to Grow a Plant Procedural Writing and Sequencing

Writing steps in order is a big skill, and planting a seed is the perfect way to teach it. Your students get to see the steps, sort them and write them.

This how to grow a plant writing activity takes students from seed to plant while they learn to write steps in order. Students read the printable book, put the picture sequencing cards in order on the sequencing mat, and publish their writing in a flower pot flipbook. The words on the back of each card help young writers use the right vocabulary: seed, soil, water, sunlight, sprout. It fits a spring plant unit, a procedural writing unit, or both.

What is in it

• Printable How to Grow a Plant book
• 12 picture sequencing cards with vocabulary words on the back
• Sequencing mat to put the cards in order
• Flower pot flipbooks with primary handwriting lines or notebook lines
• First, next, then, and last pages with space for a picture
• 22 pages total

See every page in the From Seed to Plant preview on TPT.

Skills it builds

• Sequencing steps in order
• Procedural (how to) writing
• Plant vocabulary and life science
• Transition words: first, next, then, last

Where it fits

• Spring and plant units
• Writing centers and small groups
• Vocabulary support for ELL students
• Kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grade classrooms

What teachers are saying

It holds 5 stars from 22 ratings.

"This was a perfect piece for my plant unit with my ELLs. They learned sequencing and enjoyed creating this!"

"This was a fun project to add to our procedural writing unit."

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Steps that grow

Plant a few seeds, pull out the cards, and let your students write their way from seed to plant.

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Made by a teacher who's been right where you are.

Jessica Ann Stanford, Teachers Follow Teachers