Reading Skills: Making Connections
These sites provide various activities involving the reading stragey with connections to text-to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world. Includes modeling scenarios as well as interactive activities for teachers.
Into The Book: Strategies for Learning
This site from Wisconsin Education Communication Board features interactive activities to teach questioning, visualizing, inferring, summarizing, evaluation, and synthesizing. Videos model teaching lessons.
READWRITETHINK: Making Connections: Strategy Guide
Here is a strategy guide to learn how to model the three different kinds of connections (text-to-text, text-to-self and text-to-world). Students then use the strategies to look for their own personal connections to a text. Three downloadable posters describing the connections are available.
Reading Response Logs - Making Connections
This PDF helps students connect to the texts they are reading.
Teaching Reading Comprehension: A Look At Reading Comprehension Strategies
Learn more about the following reading comprehension strategies: making connections, visualizing, questioning, inferring, evaluating, and synthesizing.
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Scholastic: Making Connections - Self-Monitoring
See this series of seven lessons provides independent activities to engage students in making connections to text. NOTE: This site contains ads.
READWRITETHINK: Digging Deeper: Developing Comprehension Using "Thank You, Mr. Falker"
This lesson provides strategies for students to make personal connections to text by using "Thank You, Mr. Falker". Response journals may be used for recording student connections to the character and themes in the book.
READWRITETHINK: Boars and Baseball: Making Connections
This lesson uses "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" to teach reading strategies of text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world. An extension activity is given.
READWRITETHINK: Family Ties: Making Connections to Improve Reading Comprehension
In this activity, students are engaged with picture books about families to make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections by reading and responding to those books.
Revisiting Read-Aloud: Instructional Strategies That Encourage Students' Engagement With Text
Use this article for teaching examples of modeling text-to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world strategies. Several student activities are provided.
This site provides information on six comprehension strategies and activities for students. NOTE: This site contains ads.
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