make connections to personal experiences, ideas in other texts, and society;
Review our profile on civil rights activist Amelia Boynton and answer questions to reinforce understanding.
Review 10 writing examples and identify the type of text connection demonstrated in each: text-to-text, text-to-self, or text-to-world.
A recording sheet for making text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to world connections when reading a piece of text.
A graphic organizer to use with students when making connections with a piece of text.
A fun reading comprehension game to play after reading a fictional text.
A reading response journal for students to use to engage with text in meaningful and purposeful ways.
A reading response template for students to make inferences and predictions with a piece of text.
Question prompts and a worksheet to use when asking questions before, during, and after reading.
Question prompts and a worksheet to use when asking questions before, during, and after reading.
A graphic organizer for students to record text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections.
A story and worksheet that explores issues regarding female gender stereotypes.
A set of task cards to be paired with the International Women's Day comic 'Gender Ground Rules'.
A set of five literacy rotation task cards to be used in conjunction with issue 1 of Teach Starter's Grade 4 "What's Buzzing?" magazine.
A beautifully designed, 24-page reading magazine written specifically for Grade 4 students.
A set of QR code question cubes to use when working with reading comprehension strategies.
An engaging 44 slide interactive PowerPoint to use in the classroom when introducing comprehension strategies.
A fun comprehension strategy board game for students to play during literacy rotations.
A collection of age-appropriate, Grade 4 teaching resources and activities for homeschool parents to use with their children during the month of September.
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.
A 60-minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of activating prior knowledge.