teaching resource

What's the Connection? Worksheet

Updated: 27 Jun 2023

Use this reading skills worksheet to help your students learn about the types of text connections: text-to-text, text-to-self and text-to-world.

Editable: Google Slides
Non-Editable: PDF
Pages: 1 Page
Years: 5 - 6

Curriculum

VC2E5LY01

Use interaction skills including paraphrasing and questioning to clarify meaning, make connections to personal experience or to a text, and present and justify an opinion or idea <ul> <li>participating in pair, group, class and school speaking and listening situations, including informal conversations, discussions and presentations</li> <li>asking specific questions to clarify a speaker’s meaning, making constructive comments that keep a conversation moving, reviewing ideas expressed and conveying tentative conclusions</li> <li>using strategies for discussion, such as speaking clearly, pausing, asking questions and linking students’ responses to the contributions of others</li> <li>choosing vocabulary and sentence structures for particular purposes, including formal and informal contexts, to report and explain new concepts and topics, to offer an opinion and to persuade others</li> </ul>
VC2E6LY08

Use comprehension strategies, such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning, and connect and compare ideas from a variety of sources to build literal and inferred meanings <ul> <li>making connections between the text and their own experiences or other texts</li> <li>making connections between information in print and images</li> <li>using prior knowledge and textual information to make inferences</li> <li>asking and answering questions</li> <li>using graphic organisers to visualise connections, categories and hierarchies of information</li> <li>summarising a text or part of a text</li> </ul>

teaching resource

What's the Connection? Worksheet

Updated: 27 Jun 2023

Use this reading skills worksheet to help your students learn about the types of text connections: text-to-text, text-to-self and text-to-world.

Editable: Google Slides
Non-Editable: PDF
Pages: 1 Page
Years: 5 - 6

Use this reading skills worksheet to help your students learn about the types of text connections: text-to-text, text-to-self and text-to-world.

Making Connections with Text: Year 5 Worksheet

This text connections worksheet is best used as an independent practice to support your Making Connections reading comprehension lesson.

On the worksheet, students are given statements to read and decide which kind of connection it is:

Text-to-text: relates to another reading
Text-to-self: relates to a personal experience
Text-to-world: relates to an external real-world event or topic

Text Connections Worksheet Scaffolding and Extension Tips

In addition to individual practice, students can also complete this worksheet in peer pairs or groups.

Extend this worksheet to challenge students who already know the concepts (and keep fast finishers busy). Prompt students to circle clue words that helped them decide which kind of connection the statements are. Additionally, ask them to write connection statements of their own.

To support struggling students: before printing, circle clue words in each statement that help students determine the correct answer.

Easily Prepare This Resource for Your Students

Because this resource includes an answer sheet, we recommend you print one copy of the entire file. Then, make photocopies of the blank worksheet for students to complete.

Turn this teaching resource into a sustainable activity! Print a few copies on cardstock and slip them into dry-erase sleeves. Students can record their answers with a whiteboard marker, then erase and reuse.

You can also project the worksheet onto a screen and work through it as a class by having students record their answers in their workbooks.

Before You Download

Use the dropdown icon on the Download button to choose between the PDF or Google Slides version of this resource. An answer key is also included with this download.

This resource was created by Jennifer Hall, a teacher and Teach Starter Collaborator.

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Curriculum

VC2E5LY01

Use interaction skills including paraphrasing and questioning to clarify meaning, make connections to personal experience or to a text, and present and justify an opinion or idea <ul> <li>participating in pair, group, class and school speaking and listening situations, including informal conversations, discussions and presentations</li> <li>asking specific questions to clarify a speaker’s meaning, making constructive comments that keep a conversation moving, reviewing ideas expressed and conveying tentative conclusions</li> <li>using strategies for discussion, such as speaking clearly, pausing, asking questions and linking students’ responses to the contributions of others</li> <li>choosing vocabulary and sentence structures for particular purposes, including formal and informal contexts, to report and explain new concepts and topics, to offer an opinion and to persuade others</li> </ul>
VC2E6LY08

Use comprehension strategies, such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning, and connect and compare ideas from a variety of sources to build literal and inferred meanings <ul> <li>making connections between the text and their own experiences or other texts</li> <li>making connections between information in print and images</li> <li>using prior knowledge and textual information to make inferences</li> <li>asking and answering questions</li> <li>using graphic organisers to visualise connections, categories and hierarchies of information</li> <li>summarising a text or part of a text</li> </ul>

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