Making Connections Reading Strategy Lesson Plan: How to make deeper Text-to-Self, Text-to-Text, and Text-to-World connections
Making Connections is more than simply finding any text-to-text, text-to-self, or text-to-world connection.
Use this lesson to help your students develop deeper connections instead of thin connections like “this book has a dog and I have a dog…”
MAKING CONNECTIONS
Reading Strategy
How to Make (Deeper) Connections – 4 PRO TIPS
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- Connect with things you’ve read (text to text), things you’ve experienced (text to self), or things people know (text to world)
- Avoid simple connections. Find things that are same-same but different.
- Use one of these thought patterns:
○ This is like that, but… so…
○ A is like B, and B is _ so A is probably _
- Stop after every heading or paragraph and make a connection
The slideshow lesson is comprehensive, easy to use and includes everything you need for :
- DISTANCE LEARNING or 1:1 LEARNING in Google Classroom
- FACE to FACE LEARNING in your real classroom
In this package, you get:
- the slideshow lesson to walk your students through 4 tips to using the Making Connections strategy, an example of how to use this strategy and how this strategy connects with active reading and 21st century learning skills.
- a generic Making Connections handout package that can be used with any text. This helps students ask questions before, during, and after reading.
- a metacognition handout/reflection questions to help students reflect on the strategy
- a rubric to assess ideas generated during reading, as well as ideas generated during the metacognition reflection.
BONUS VIDEO LESSON:
- I’ve recorded the slideshow as a FREE YOUTUBE VIDEO so it’s easier to teach with DISTANCE LEARNING:
IMPORTANT NOTE: This product DOES NOT include a text for students to read!
The package only includes the Making Connections strategy slideshow lesson and handouts.
It is intended for teachers to use with a novel or text that they are studying in class.
Reading comprehension strategies like Making Connections help students engage with the text and gain a deeper understanding than just passively reading.
If you want this product with reading texts, please check out our Reading for Meaning Comprehension Strategies bundle.
