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Reading Skill: Sequencing Sequencing involves putting the events in a passage
in the correct order. Readers can understand the

passage better when they know which events
happened before or after others.
Complete the sentences and number them in the correct order.

Laurie Sykes, Organic Farmer

5 Her produce started selling at the local food co-op and Jim’s Organics.

1 She majored in English in college.

7 She plans to buy more land and expand to produce more crops .

3 She spent a year doing research because she knew nothing about farming .

6 People all over the state want her produce and now she sells to local restaurants.

2 She inherited acres of land from her grandfather.

4 Her first crop was very small so the local farmers’ market didn’t want it.

want her produce inherited acres of land at the local food co-op

very small produce more crops nothing about farming

Unit 3 | Meet Laurie Sykes, Organic Farmer