Practice making connections to text with your students with this simple craftivity.
Help Your Students Connect With Text
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 craft activity outlines the connections students can make with their exposed texts. These include:
- Text-to-self connections
- Text-to-text connections
- 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 reading or homework folders for future reference when reading.
Your students will need scissors, glue, coloring materials and a piece of construction paper to assemble their Text Connections Clouds craftivity.
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