Using prior knowledge, making connections, questioning, visualizing, inferring, summarizing, evaluating and synthesizing. This english unit is designed to explicitly teach the reading comprehension strategies of activating prior knowledge, making connections, questioning, monitoring, predicting, inferring, visualising and summarising to upper primary students, with a. Reading comes alive when we recognize how the ideas in a text connect to our experiences and beliefs, events happening in the larger world, our understanding of history, and our knowledge of other texts. I always introduce all the reading strategies at the beginning of the year when we are talking about metacognition, but then we dig a little deeper into each strategy throughout the year. Creating connections to the real world through stories. Footprints and shadows dodd, anne westcott mental images. They must also know the difference between text to self, text to text. I love, love, love teaching reading if you hang around her often, im sure you have read that before. Harvey and goudvis 2000 caution that merely making connections is not sufficient. Chromebooks making connections donorschoose project by. Explain to students that a connection is a way to relate to a character. Making connections in reading comprehension youtube. Your assessments and observations will inform your instruction. Here in texas, the temps are warming up, the trees are budding, and there are flowers everywhere.
Provides making connections activities and making connections anchor chart or poster. And after our meeting with the turtle at the park, we read it with a different spinowen and cora made connections with the text in ways they hadnt before. Great reader response for a nonfiction or fiction books in guided reading or read alouds of any mentor text. Students should be seated on the carpet with a partner.
If students make connections while they are reading, they have a better chance of understanding and remembering the. Making text connections while reading is a comprehension skill that takes time and practice to master. Great for new teachers, student teachers, homeschooling and teachers who like creative ways to teach. Making connections reading strategies anchor charts to post in your classroom and matching bookmarks to help students make connections as they read. Check out the three mini lesson statements and watch the video to get more ideas on how to teach making connections with three specific books. Have you been following along with the blog series im doing with this reading mama. For a variety of graphic organizers to help reinforce teaching students to make connections and that can be used with any mentor text or independent text, check out. This book bundle will help you teach readers how to make connections while reading popular picture books for first grade readers. Students will understand that making connections helps them comprehend what they are reading. Throughout instruction, students need to be challenged to analyze how their connections are contributing to their understanding of the text. Making connections this document is the first in a series of support materials. They are able to better connect with the characters and the plot and really understand what is happening. Thundercake is a great model text to use to teach students how to make texttoself connections. As they draw on prior experiences to help them understand the text better, they become more active readers.
When picking text to self books, it is important to look for books that have a theme that kids can relate to. After sharing and discussing connections, students choose and plan a project that makes a personal connection to the text. It has been designed to support the northern adelaide region comprehension focus 20102012 debbie draper, decs curriculum consultant, northern adelaide. Improve your reading skills with the kwl method duration.
Making connections with picture books first grade book. You may display a cumulative chart of books and other reading materials that you have read together as a class to support these connections. Its particularly important for english language learners. Read aloud books for making connections october 28, 2016. Request a magic login link and you will receive an email with a link to login to your teach starter account. Chicken sunday polacco, patricia schemamaking connections chrysanthemum henkes, kevin schemamaking connections close your eyes marzollo, jean mental images color me a rhyme yolen, jane mental images condors egg, the london, jonathan visualizing corduroy freeman, don schemamaking connections country fair cooper, elisha schemamaking. Learn english with emma engvid recommended for you. Video in this episode, gale cartier teaches her first grade students how to make text to text, text to self, and text to world connections so that they can better. In this lesson, students will make texttoself, texttotext, and texttoworld connections after reading in the year of the boar and jackie robinson. Aug 12, 2016 looking for ideas on how to teach students all about making connections as they read books. Two books that teach text to self, text to text, and text to world connections does everyone start the year off teaching connections. Start with text to self connections and then move on to teaching text to text and text to world connections. Owen, cora, and i have been reading our favorite poetry books before rest time most days because the poems are short and catchy, and theyre beginning to say them along with me.
The program employs a scaffolded instructional plan that supports students by modeling, guiding, and then coaching students to independence. How to teach making connections in the upper elementary classroom. Read aloud chesters way and discuss the texttoself connections that you can make to the book. For me, the best part about reading books was being able to relate to the charactersand it still is to this day. As we read the book outside, in the sunshine after dinner, with brady boy at our feet, they compared each animals size to that of our turtle. Click on over to read how i use each book to teach text to self, text to text, and text to world connections. Youll get the following set of resources for each book. When teaching a lesson in science that deals with making connections, have the students read research papers on lab results. Now and ben by gene barretta how people learned to fly by fran hodgkins from peanut to peanut butter by robin nelson. Looking for ideas on how to teach students all about summarizing as they read books. Check out the three mini lesson statements and watch the video to get more ideas on how to teach summarizing with three specific books. Into the book is a reading comprehension resource for elementary students and teachers. Help me give my students the ability to use independent stations to enhance personalized learning in my kindergarten classroom.
Unit plan applying reading comprehension strategies. Fireflies brinkloe, julie schemamaking connections first discovery books scholastic, new york determining importance fly away home bunting, eve inferring fly away home bunting, eve questioning. I like to use mentor texts to give my students a lot of practice in order to help my students master understanding each type of connection, as well as help them provide a list of things that might help spark connections, such as movies, books, current events, and problems in our local area or. Making connections can be as difficult or as easy as you make it for our upper elementary students. Use these charts to teach students the foundation of making connections. How many 5 year olds do you know can spend their school day learning in english and mandarin. Chesters way is also a great model text to make texttotext connections. Be sure to keep running notes of your students use, or lack of use, of the making connections strategy in both individual conferences as well as in reading groups. The characters also need to be realistic, especially for older kids. Teach for the development of higherorder thinking and executive function.
They will turn and talk to this partner throughout the lesson. Behind the lesson is an unscripted professional learning series that features exemplary educators effectively teaching their students to be strategic readers. Plan your lesson in english language arts and reading with helpful tips from teachers like you. Owen, cora, and i have been reading our favorite poetry books before rest time most days because the poems are short and catchy, and. These are awesome for teaching comprehension strategies. Teaching text connections to first graders brighthub.
This product making connections using picture books includes theory and rational pages explaining the reasoning behind using picture books to teach comprehension focusing on the area of making connections. When students are able to make connections with a book they find more meaning to the story. Nov 2, 2016 these are some of my favorite books to teach making connections in the classroom. They feel more in touch with characters, events, and ideas when they are able to find some basic similarities with them, and as a result, readers are more likely to remember what they read. In todays post im sharing a lesson and free printable that will show you how to teach predicting with picture books. This is when i teach my students how to think like readers. My students are immersed in a chinese language program where half of. The first type of connection is a text to self connection. It contains a synthesis of material from a variety of online and printed sources.
Book list for making connections this reading mama. Were sharing specific ways to teach reading comprehension strategies with picture books. Oct 02, 2019 assessment is an important component to effectively teaching making connections. Making connections is a reading strategy that helps students find meaning in a text by connecting it to their own life. After sharing and discussing connections, students choose and plan a project that makes a.
Two books that teach texttoself, texttotext, and texttoworld connections. Making connections teaches an extensive range of reading skills and strategies in order to prepare students for college reading. Making text connections is an easy way for first graders to begin to think a little more deeply about what they are reading. Apr 28, 2011 and after our meeting with the turtle at the park, we read it with a different spinowen and cora made connections with the text in ways they hadnt before. My rotten redheaded older brother by patricia polacco. Explain how good readers connect the text to their own life. My goal was to make it easy to teach readers how to think about books through the lens of comprehension strategies. It will challenge the students to use their making connections strategy to comprehend the material that they are reading. The caines were interested in the brains rules for meaningful learning and organizing teaching with those rules in mind.
Introduce and make a list of the types of texttotext connections students can make, such as comparing characters personalities and actions, story events, themes or messages. The most challenging connection to teach is texttoworld connections. We must make connections in order to better understand a text. We always seem to go on poetrykicks around here, and were on one now. There are three types of connections that readers make. Books that make for great text to text connections usually share a similar theme, the characters have similar traits or the struggleproblem in the texts is similar. Making connections is a direct, systematic, and highly interactive comprehension program that teaches students strategies to build their comprehension. Check out into the book, an elementary reading comprehension resource with student and teacher resources. It has been designed to support the northern adelaide region comprehension focus 20102012 debbie draper. I thought i would share a few of my favorite books for teaching texttoself connections, texttotext connections and texttoworld connections. This english unit is designed to explicitly teach the reading comprehension strategies of activating prior knowledge, making connections, questioning, monitoring, predicting, inferring, visualising and summarising to upper primary students, with a focus on literary texts. About the program making connections school specialty eps. Fourth grade lesson in english language arts making connections. Jun 17, 20 making connections teaches an extensive range of reading skills and strategies in order to prepare students for college reading.
How to teach predicting with picture books the measured mom. Family, sibling rivalry, pets, school, or feelings are a great place to start. Our interactive read aloud time is a part of our day that i never push to the side. Teaching text connections to first graders brighthub education. Text to self, text to text, and text to world graphic organizers are separate or together. When a reader makes a text to self connection, they compare the characters or events in the book to their own lives. Happy spring some of you are still in the grip of winter with snow and ice. Teach for the development of higherorder thinking and executive function caine, renate nummela on. The text to text, text to self, text to world strategy helps students develop the habit of making these connections as they read. The bookmarks will help to reinforce and support these strategies for indiv.
Making connections with text posters teaching resource. Readers make connections to better understand a text. An example of texttotext connection might be, this character has the same problem that i read about in a story last month. This will be a very hard text for them to comprehend. Choose books that have characters or are about topics that will easily lend itself to texttoworld connections. Students may make tangential connections that can distract them from the text. Feb 21, 2015 this movie gives a brief overview of what the making connections reading instruction strategy is, and how it is used in general. These are a few books that make for great text to text connections. Lillys purple plastic purse by kevin henkes, the relatives came by cynthia rylant, wemberly worried by kevin henkes. An extensive resource pack to help students understand the concept of making connections.
Making connections, book 4, teachers edition not available on. This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and if not signed in for advertising. See more ideas about books, picture book, childrens books. Oct 28, 2016 i thought i would share a few of my favorite books for teaching texttoself connections, texttotext connections and texttoworld connections. Making connections second edition level 2 teachers manual contains teaching suggestions for each activity type as well as a complete answer key. Connections are made when reading other books from the same author, stories from a similar genre, or stories about the same topic. Making connections was first published by educators renate and geoffrey caine to begin establishing a link between the neurosciences and education. Modeling the text connections process using picture books is an effective method for reinforcing or introducing the new skill. When my parent or teacher made a direct connection between the book and my own life, the conflicts in the stories became real to me. Expository essays nj ask grade 8 discuss as whole group the important elements of the essay and what make it an effective writing piece, using the nj ask 8 eighth grade expository writing. Please wash your hands and practise social distancing. Read aloud books for making connections susan jones.