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A graphic organizer for students to record text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections.
Make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections when reading a piece of text with this recording sheet
A beautifully designed, 24-page reading magazine specifically written for Grade 2 students.
Learn about and discuss activist Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott with this 15-slide read-along PowerPoint presentation.
A graphic organizer to use with students when making connections with a piece of text.
A 14-slide PowerPoint to use as a shared reading activity about Anna May Wong.
A worksheet paired with an article about people around the world who have dedicated their lives to helping others.
Read along to learn about soldier & activist Charity Adams Earley with this 13-slide PowerPoint presentation.
Read along to learn about Ruby Bridges and her role in desegregation with this 14-slide PowerPoint presentation.
Learn about Harriet Tubman and her work in the abolitionist movement with this 15-slide read-along PowerPoint presentation.
Use this 13-slide PowerPoint as a collaborative reading exercise about Martin Luther King, Jr.
A 13-slide PowerPoint to use as a shared reading activity about Queen Lili'uokalani.
A 15-slide PowerPoint to use as a shared reading activity about Clara Barton.
A story and worksheet that explores issues regarding female gender stereotypes.
Five sets of literacy rotation task cards to be used in conjunction with issue 1 of Teach Starter's Grade 2 magazine.
This reading unit is designed to explicitly teach the reading comprehension strategies of activating prior knowledge, making connections, questioning, monitoring, predicting, inferring, visualizing, and summarizing to elementary students, with a focus on literary texts.
A 60-minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of making connections.