Text to self connections activities

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

Helping K-2 Teachers Like You Save Time, Grow Instructional Skills, and Teach With Confidence!

This week's focus book was Plaidypus Lost. I have to admit, this book was not one of my favorites until the author, Susan Stevens Crummel, visited our school last year. She made the book come alive when she read it to us and gave us the background behind it. I used this book to teach text-to-self connections. In the story, the little girl loses her beloved plaidypus that her grandmother made for her from her grandpa's old shirt. However, the little girl was not responsible (a vocabulary word…

Reinforce text connections using picture books and oral questioning (questions

Who doesn't love a good anchor chart? Now - an anchor chart with a purpose? That takes a little inspiration, and that's what this post is all about! We all teach students about making connections at some point during the school year, so I wanted to give you some great examples o

Making Connections 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 if you desire or they can just work on the picture part if writing is a challenge for them. Either way this page can be used with any student in any grade (even my 5th graders like…

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

Diverse mentor texts and guided questions for teaching students in

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!

Do you get a TON of scholastic book order forms that you don't use? Well, I get a TON. I wanted to do something useful with them, so I created this making connections activity to go along with the thousands of orders that I get each year. I am linking up with Freebies on the First. Click the picture below to go! All you do is link up your freebie that must always stay free and never be a paid product! I wanted to share with you what I am linking up today! You can click HERE to get it on my…