describe personal connections to a variety of sources, including self-selected texts;
A comprehension task to use when learning about Malala Yousafzai.
A set of 7 posters profiling inspirational women from around the world.
A comprehension task to use when learning about Jessica Watson.
A worksheet for students to practice making connections with a piece of text.
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 comprehension task to use when learning about Brooke Boney.
A comprehension task to use when learning about Yuna Kim.
Learn about celebrations from around the world with this 15-page activity booklet.
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.
A reading response template for students to make connections with a piece of text.
A reading response template for students to write a personal review of 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 fun reading activity to help students discover books they enjoy.
A set of 14 task cards for upper elementary students to use after reading a fiction text.
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 fun reading comprehension strategy activity for students to use after reading a text.
A collection of age-appropriate, Grade 5 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.