Enjoy this fun literature craftivity with your students, which prompts them to answer comprehension questions for making personal connections to text.
Text Connections Clouds Craftivity
The ability for students to make connections between texts and their own personal experiences is a foundational comprehension strategy. Making links between texts and themselves (their environment, people, places, and other prior knowledge) helps students make meaningful connections to literature and better understand the story.
This combined craft and writing template outlines the types of connections students can make with texts they are exposed to through guided reading, shared texts, and home readers. These include:
- Text-to-self connections
- Text-to-text connections, and
- Text-to-world connections.
How to Use Text Connections Clouds in the Classroom
In the download file (Google Slides or PDF), you’ll find clear instructions on a cover page, cloud writing prompt cutouts, character templates, and a strip containing relevant information about types of text connections. Use this in the assembly of the craftivity, or have students save it in their books or homework folders for future reference when reading.
Your students will need scissors, glue, colouring materials and a piece of backing paper to assemble their Text Connections Clouds craftivity.
Through completion of this task, students will demonstrate their ability to use the comprehension strategy of connecting when listening, viewing and reading to build literal and inferred meaning by drawing on vocabulary and growing knowledge of context and text structures.
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