Reading Activities for Making Connections | Digital & Printable Reading Comprehension Toolkit

Description

These making connections activities give you everything you need to teach text to self, text to text, and text to world connections, with digital and printable mini-lessons, anchor charts, reading passages, response sheets, and more.

Teaching Tools

• Making Connections chant with teaching video
• Focus posters
• We Can Make Connections digital anchor chart (text to self, text, and world)
• Making Connections with BME digital anchor chart
• Printable anchor chart and bookmarks
• Making Connections printables

Interactive Digital Activities

• Name the Connection
• This Reminds Me Of
• Photographic Connections
• Text to Text Connections
• Making Deep Connections
• Text to World Connections
• The Rainbow Fish

Practice and Assessment

• 12 leveled reading passages
• Exit tickets
• 7 reading response sheets

What’s Included

• Printable and digital versions for Google Slides, Seesaw, and PowerPoint
• 200 pages

Digital Formats

• PowerPoint: files are in the zip folder
• Google Slides: links are throughout the PDF, so you just click and save
• Seesaw: links are throughout the PDF, so you just click and assign to your class

Differentiation

• Reading passages come in 3 levels, with 4 passages at each level

Good to Know

This is not a set of lesson plans. It is a set of activities to use whenever you focus on this skill, during a unit of study or all year as you read books in class. The activities are not book specific, and the video mini-lessons feature Katie and Amy teaching the skill.

Save with the bundle: this resource is also included in Reading Comprehension Toolkit Bundle.

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• Reading Activities for Asking and Answering Questions
• Reading Activities for Setting and Illustrations
• Reading Activities for Character Traits and Analysis
• Reading Activities for Making Predictions and Synthesis