Middle and High School
Making Connections: General overview, and ideas for use in your classroom
The image below is a link to a packet with a wealth of information about what the Making Connections strategy is, and how to use it. Pulled from a variety of both on-line and printed sources, It contains assessment ideas, sample lesson plans, activity ideas, graphic organizers, and posters, all suitable or easily adaptable for use in your middle or high school classroom.
Vocabulary
Below is a video of a fun interactive lesson for teaching vocabulary. The TeachingChannel page for this video has links to more detailed information about the lesson, including links to download free supporting materials (requires creating a free account).
Literature Circles
Below are links to several packets with instructions for setting up and running literature circles in your classroom, along with graphic organizers for student use. Click each image to get to the online PDF packet, and you can download from there.
Dialectical Journals
Dialectical journals can be thought of as students having a series of conversations with the text as they read. Below are two dialectical journal packets you can use with your students. Each image is linked to the source page where you can download the packet.
Graphic Organizers
Great tools students can use to organize their thoughts, and better connect to the text they're reading. Just click the image to get to the source page to download the organizer.
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Activity Ideas
Below is a slide show of a variety of Making Connections activities you can use in your classroom, along with any accompanying supporting materials. Hover your mouse over the image to make the controls appear. Then click "Play" to start the slide show, or just click the arrows to go through the slides manually. Like anything you see? Just click the image to get to the linked source page.