Grades 3-5
Posters and Anchor Charts for Making Connections
These posters and anchor charts are great resources to create and use with your students as well as hang up around the classroom. They will serve as great reminders to your students of the various types of connections. The poster in the middle even adds a fourth type of connection, text-to-media, to the list of three that we already use!
These posters and anchor charts are great resources to create and use with your students as well as hang up around the classroom. They will serve as great reminders to your students of the various types of connections. The poster in the middle even adds a fourth type of connection, text-to-media, to the list of three that we already use!
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Graphic Organizers
Students learn the strategy of making connections very early on in school. As students progress through the grade levels they should be encouraged to not only make connections but to explain them and how they contribute to a deeper understanding of the text. These graphic organizers are excellent tools that students can use to not only record connections but how they help them to better understand the text that they are reading.
Students learn the strategy of making connections very early on in school. As students progress through the grade levels they should be encouraged to not only make connections but to explain them and how they contribute to a deeper understanding of the text. These graphic organizers are excellent tools that students can use to not only record connections but how they help them to better understand the text that they are reading.
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Double-Entry Journals
Double-Entry Journals are great resources for students to use to record their connections as they read. Also, as students become more skilled readers, double-entry journals are an effective way for students to record their use of several different strategies while reading including the skill of making connections. The two double-entry templates below can be found on the website, readwritethink.org. To view the first template, click here. To view the second template, click here.
Double-Entry Journals are great resources for students to use to record their connections as they read. Also, as students become more skilled readers, double-entry journals are an effective way for students to record their use of several different strategies while reading including the skill of making connections. The two double-entry templates below can be found on the website, readwritethink.org. To view the first template, click here. To view the second template, click here.
Making Connections Center Activity
This activity is a great way for students to practice identifying the different types of connections with a partner. Students read various connections and categorize them as text-to-self, text-to-text, or text-to-word. There is also an independent worksheet that can be completed after the activity! Retrieved from: Making Connections Center Sort |
Book Lists
The following books are great resources to use when teaching students how to make connections. These books suggestions come from a list of books used to model comprehension strategies. The list is used by the teachers in my school district. To view the full list of books, click here.
The following books are great resources to use when teaching students how to make connections. These books suggestions come from a list of books used to model comprehension strategies. The list is used by the teachers in my school district. To view the full list of books, click here.
Text-to-self Connections
The Art Lesson by Tomie DePaolo Oliver Button is a Sissy by Tomie DePaolo The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco Some Birthday! by Patricia Polacco The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant When I Was Young in the Mountains by Cynthia Rylant |
Text-to-text Connections
My Rotten Red-Headed Older Brother by Patricia Polacco and The Pain and the Great One by Judy Blume The Surprise Wednesday by Eve Bunting and Jeremiah Learns to Read by Bogart and Thank you, Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco When Lightning Comes in a Jar by Patricia Polacco and The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant |
Text-to-world Connections
A Picnic in October by Eve Bunting The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry New York's Bravest by Mary Pope Osborne Night in the Country by Cynthia Rylant The Lorax by Dr. Seuss What a Wonderful World by George D. Weiss and Bob Theile The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson |
The following resource was put together by a group of educators in the Wachusett Regional School District. Their purpose in creating it was to provide a list of mentor texts that support instruction on various reading strategies. For a list of mentor texts to use when teaching the strategy of making connections to students in grades 3-5, reference pages 4-8. You can download your own copy of this resource by clicking here.
Additional Resources
This Making Connections packet contains a variety of valuable resources to be used in the classroom. It includes a classroom poster set, student bookmarks, differentiated graphic organizers, and a template for a class project. The cost of the packet is $5.00. To purchase this packet, click here.
This Making Connections packet contains a variety of valuable resources to be used in the classroom. It includes a classroom poster set, student bookmarks, differentiated graphic organizers, and a template for a class project. The cost of the packet is $5.00. To purchase this packet, click here.