When readers are really thinking about what they’re reading, they sometimes make connections to what’s going on in the world right now or how it may connect to past events. These text to world connections can cause students to activate their background knowledge and can help keep them engaged with the text. The more students […]
Reinforce text connections using picture books and oral questioning (questions
Use different sentence frames to increase text connections. Help students
I never really used anchor charts and if I did they were just plain old boring. I never realized they were boring until I discovered pinterest. I thought "Man, my anchor charts are blaaah, compared to these!" So the creative person in me said "Move over sista, it's time for the real star to shine!" HAHAHA I really don't think THAT highly of myself, maybe just a little. This year our school mandated that we have anchor charts displayed in our classroom AND it needed to be student interacted. Today I introduced use your schema to make connections strategy from CAFE. I pre-made this anchor chart before introducing it to the class. I then introduced each connection one by one using several examples and filling in the pre-made anchor chart. This was our end result. I made a worksheet so students can make connections when they read to self. Click on the picture to grab yours for free. I really love how COLOR makes a huge difference and how it catches the students attention. Here is another example of an anchor chart I made during math instruction. I place the anchor charts on the wall so that students can refer back to them during the week. Once we move on to a new content I switch out the old ones to new anchor charts. Here are pictures of our Science and Math walls. Laters, Mrs. Concepcion
Today, I’m sharing our book list for making connections! Be sure to check out all our reading comprehension book lists. We even have printable comprehension book list. *This post contains affiliate links. One important comprehension strategy we want readers to use is making connections. There are three kinds of connections readers make before, during or after ... Read More about Book List for Making Connections
Making connections is a strategy that readers use to better understand the text they are reading. It's one of the most powerful strategies your readers have in their tool belts. Readers use their prior knowledge to make a text to self, text to text, or text to world connection to what they are reading. I have put together some lessons and activities for the elementary classroom that can be helpful in teaching this valuable reading strategy. The first thing you want to do is make sure students have a basic understanding of the word connection. You can start with this simple opening activity. Put four of the provided cards into a bag. Pull them out and show them to students. Ask them what the connection is between the objects in the bag. Have a conversation about how they are connected. Then talk about any connections they have to those objects. It's a very basic way of discussing what connections are. You can then relate that to making connections in a book. I included five sets of cards that you could use each day of the week or you could split the students into groups and have them discuss connections with their groups. I would model describing the connection on the card above, because students will have to describe their connections in writing during the unit. You could laminate this to use again. The posters I included cover the three different types of connections that readers can make. For the anchor chart, I also included sentence frames for students to refer to throughout the unit when describing their connections. Text to Self Connection Craft I would explicitly teach one type of connection each day at first. You can uses these crafts for students to record their connections each day. Lots of modeling will probably be needed. Text to Text Connection Craft Text to World Connection Craft Once students have learned the different types of connections, you can go into making them understand that you can make different types of connections within one text. Give each student the 3 strips for the different types of connections they can make to a text. You can then make them into a chain connecting these cards to the name of the text you read. Close your lesson by summarizing the connections made on the cards above. This is a great visual for students to understand how making connections works. I always like for my students to have these little hats to wear while practicing the strategy. They also can get these bookmarks and badges. Always use some sort of exit ticket to close your lesson. This is where you will get an additional assessment to guide your instruction for the next day, as well as your small strategy groups. I like to always include additional graphic organizers for additional lessons on making connections, as well as for small groups and centers. I made them for the three different types of connections. You can use these case files for your whole group lessons or during small group teacher table. After you have taught how these work, these are great for a literacy center! Finally, a fun Friday activity we love to do are Brown Bag Book Clubs! You fill the bag with popcorn and have students fill out the graphic organizer over a read aloud. They then get into groups to discuss their connections with their book club, as well as to review other strategies previously learned. I hope these making connections activities are helpful for your readers! You can find it HERE or by clicking any of the images in this post. If you own the Reading Comprehension Bundle, it has been added there, too, so be sure to download it in your My Purchases tab. Happy reading!
Kindergarten Reading: Informational Text Standards Key Ideas and Details RI.K.3. With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text. 3 Interactive, Scaffolded PowerPoint Lessons - Lesson 1: Text to Self Connections - Lesson 2: Text to Text Connections - Lesson 3: Text to World Connections
When readers are really thinking about what they’re reading, they sometimes make connections to what’s going on in the world right now or how it may connect to past events. These text to world connections can cause students to activate their background knowledge and can help keep them engaged with the text. The more students […]
Making connections is a strategy that readers use to better understand the text they are reading. It's one of the most powerful strategies your readers have in their tool belts. Readers use their prior knowledge to make a text to self, text to text, or text to world connection to what they are reading. I have put together some lessons and activities for the elementary classroom that can be helpful in teaching this valuable reading strategy. The first thing you want to do is make sure students have a basic understanding of the word connection. You can start with this simple opening activity. Put four of the provided cards into a bag. Pull them out and show them to students. Ask them what the connection is between the objects in the bag. Have a conversation about how they are connected. Then talk about any connections they have to those objects. It's a very basic way of discussing what connections are. You can then relate that to making connections in a book. I included five sets of cards that you could use each day of the week or you could split the students into groups and have them discuss connections with their groups. I would model describing the connection on the card above, because students will have to describe their connections in writing during the unit. You could laminate this to use again. The posters I included cover the three different types of connections that readers can make. For the anchor chart, I also included sentence frames for students to refer to throughout the unit when describing their connections. Text to Self Connection Craft I would explicitly teach one type of connection each day at first. You can uses these crafts for students to record their connections each day. Lots of modeling will probably be needed. Text to Text Connection Craft Text to World Connection Craft Once students have learned the different types of connections, you can go into making them understand that you can make different types of connections within one text. Give each student the 3 strips for the different types of connections they can make to a text. You can then make them into a chain connecting these cards to the name of the text you read. Close your lesson by summarizing the connections made on the cards above. This is a great visual for students to understand how making connections works. I always like for my students to have these little hats to wear while practicing the strategy. They also can get these bookmarks and badges. Always use some sort of exit ticket to close your lesson. This is where you will get an additional assessment to guide your instruction for the next day, as well as your small strategy groups. I like to always include additional graphic organizers for additional lessons on making connections, as well as for small groups and centers. I made them for the three different types of connections. You can use these case files for your whole group lessons or during small group teacher table. After you have taught how these work, these are great for a literacy center! Finally, a fun Friday activity we love to do are Brown Bag Book Clubs! You fill the bag with popcorn and have students fill out the graphic organizer over a read aloud. They then get into groups to discuss their connections with their book club, as well as to review other strategies previously learned. I hope these making connections activities are helpful for your readers! You can find it HERE or by clicking any of the images in this post. If you own the Reading Comprehension Bundle, it has been added there, too, so be sure to download it in your My Purchases tab. Happy reading!
I thought I would share a few of my favorite books for teaching text-to-self connections, text-to-text connections and text-to-world connections: When students are able to make connections with a book they find more meaning to the story. They are able to better connect with the characters and the plot and really understand what is happening. […]
Teaching and practicing reading strategies with students encourages active reading and critical thinking. When students successfully use reading strategies while reading, they are more engaged, and therefore better comprehend what they are reading. Making connections
Increase reading comprehension with text connections! Seven engaging activities for
One of the first skills I teach in Reading Workshop is how to make connections with books and characters! Making connections with books is SO important and really make the books come to life! I teach each of the three connections exclusively: Text to Self Text to Text Text to World Sometimes it can be hard to find the perfect book to go with each connection, so I put together this little list for you! I hope it's helpful as you teach your readers make connections! Click on any book to order to learn more about it! Please note: most of these books have very basic connections for first time teaching, but I love seeing how students will take it deeper! Many of these books can be used to make multiple types of connections too! Books to Teach Text to Self Connections Text to self connections are easiest! Most students will be able to relate to the feelings and experiences in these books including having a bad day, being told not to do something, waiting for something, wanting something,etc. Too Many Tamales is a great book to read around Christmas and can really foster some deeper connections! Books to Teach Text to World Connections To me, this is the hardest one to teach! Younger students sometimes have a hard time thinking of the big picture and the whole world. Students can think about brave people in the world such as firefighters and police officers. Students can think about the president of our country and the jobs that come with that. What other leaders are there in the world? Students can think about how people take care of the environment. Books to Teach Text to Text Connections This is my favorite to teach! I am constantly blown away by my students making connections with books we read MONTHS ago! Here are a few books that you can purposely pair together: Characters in both stories want pets. Characters in both stories worry. Characters in both stories have special objects that they are attached to. As I introduce each connection, I have a poster that explains that connection and a poster with a sentence stem to go with it. I love sentence stems! I also have response sheets that go with each connection. Students draw or write what happened in the story and then the connection that they have! It's a really great way to assess who understands the skill and who can take it to a deeper level! Plus it's perfect to fold and put in their reading response journals! When I first teach the skill, we make specific connections together. As students get better at making connections, I will put out all three response sheets and they choose what type of connection they made with the book! These response sheets are perfect to go in literacy station and students can complete them independently. Check out the resources HERE.
A 2nd grade fall early finishers reading worksheet focusing on making connections with text (text to text, text to self, text to world).
Increase reading comprehension with text connections! Seven engaging activities for
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Making Connections (Connecting) Reading Strategy Powerpoint - Guided Teaching A PowerPoint designed to help teach connecting to students. Includes a learning objective and three success criteria so that students are aware of the goals of the lesson. Explains what connecting is and why we connect. This PowerPoint includes basic, step-by-step instructions on making text to text, text to world, and text to self connections. There are several opportunities for students to practice making connections either independently or during a class discussion. The last slide provides students with a range of sentence starters (prompts) to help them get started with connecting. Includes Google Slides access. **Download Information** Once purchased, you’ll receive an email from Etsy to instantly download. Alternatively you can download the file at any time by going to www.etsy.com/your/purchases from the browser on your phone, computer, or tablet. You are not able to download files from the Etsy App at this time. - Download and unzip the file (right click and and select unzip). - Microsoft PowerPoint or alternative file reader is required. - This is an instant download item. No physical item will be shipped to you. **Copyright Information** Copyright ©PinkTulipTeachingCreations This product is not for commercial use. Purchasing this resource gives the buyer the rights to use this resource for individual classroom or homeschool use only. Duplication for any other purpose, including commercial purpose is strictly forbidden. Placing this resource on the internet in any form violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Please respect my hard work by not breaching copyright. connecting | powerpoint | comprehension | shared reading | instructional | classroom | reading | colourful | colorful | guided reading | teach | no prep | strategies | making connections | distance learning | remote learning | primary school | education | year 4 | year 5 | independent learning | homeschool | homeschooling
Description Comprehension Strategy Posters: Australian & American Spelling INCLUDES: This is a set of 9 Reading Comprehension posters which include: Inferring, Visualising, Visualizing, Text to Text Connections, Text to Self Connections, Text to World Connections, Questioning, Summarising, Summarizing, Monitoring and Predicting. (Please note the varieties of spelling to cater for American and Australian Classrooms) Each poster has a cute graphic and a definition/summary of the reading strategy. Comprehension posters are in colour and A4 however can also be printed in A3.
Use different sentence frames to increase text connections. Help students
