Making connections activities

Making connection activities can be hard to find for first grade, but this is your one stop shop for everything you need!

Help students understand the difference between text connections that are vague surface connections and deep connections. This connections anchor chart illustrates the difference in a way that students can understand. A free interactive notebook entry is also included!

Reinforce text connections using picture books and oral questioning (questions

Are you looking for a quick, activity that will allow your students to show a connection to a story? This graphic organizer does just that with VERY little prep on your part! You can use it with any book and it can be easily used to differentiate your lesson. Student can complete the whole page ... Read More about Making Connections

Increase reading comprehension with text connections! Seven engaging activities for teaching students to make authentic connections with the text.

This free making connections set of graphic organizers can be used as you encourage your children to connect what they know with what they are reading.

Making Connections Using Picture Books - This Reading Mama

This post makes teaching making connections SO much easier with anchor chart ideas, read aloud suggestions, and activities. The books and mentor texts are perfect for kindergarten, first, and second grade students. #FirstGrade #SecondGrade #Literacy #Reading

Hello! My students and I are working on Making Connections to Text right now. So, I made 4 different graphic organizers to use with them. They include sentence stems, and/or icons to help students make connections from T-T (text-to-text), T-S (text-to-self), and T-W (text-to-world). Click on the image below to get your copy. I hope they are useful!

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When we teach the various comprehension strategies (making connections, asking questions, visualizing, inferring, predicting, summarizing, etc.), it is best to model these strategies ourselves. This is as important for the primary grades as it is for our older students. As students get older we sometimes shy away from picture books but there are so many […]

Making connections

Making connections when reading these suggested picture books will help your students use their prior experiences to make sense of the text.

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Making connections sentence starters chart

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These Making Connections activities are the perfect companions for reader's workshop. These activities include sentence stems, anchor charts, foldable brochures, sticky note usage and visual cues. They are great for guided reading, independent reading, read aloud and for literacy centers/workstation...

Picture books make amazing mentor texts for making connections! These books can help kids make text to self, text to text, or text to world connections!