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Elementary School Common Core Make Connections Resources : Page 2

Kids will be fascinated by these stories of accidents that turned into huge successes!

Accidental Inventions

Help your kindergarten students learn about comparing and contrasting nonfiction texts using this helpful Venn diagram.

Nonfiction Compare & Contrast

Use this resource with your students to practice relating to the text by making connections. Your students will practice making text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections as they read literature or informational text.

Reading Strategies: Making Connections

Introduce students to the inspiring environmental activist Wangari Maathai. Children will read a short biography about the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

All About Wangari Maathai

This travel brochure activity summarizes the fascinating history behind the birthplace of the Renaissance.

Make a Travel Brochure for Paris

Read this famous Norse myth starring Sif and Loki and find out how mythology shapes our understanding of the world around us.

Norse Myths: Sif's Golden Hair

Get your students to ask, “Why did that happen?” Support them as they make connections between key ideas in a nonfiction text about thunderstorms.

Cause and Effect: Thunderstorms

After finishing R.J. Palacio&rsquo;s novel Wonder, encourage students to create their own precepts with this creative extension activity!

Novel Study: Wonder: Write Your Postcard Precept

Celebrate Halloween with a spooky reading exercise, where you'll learn all about werewolves! Read up on the history behind these legendary beasts.

All About Werewolves

Help your second grade students identify the evidence behind the author’s purpose.

Where's the Evidence?

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the third part of Katherine Applegate&rsquo;s The One and Only Ivan.

Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #3

Build your learner's logical thinking skills by asking them to connect pictures that show what came first and what comes next.

Predict: First and Next

When in Rome, what should visitors do? Let your students become a tour guide to Rome, the historic city in Italy, with this travel brochure activity.

Make a Travel Brochure for Rome

Help your second grade students identify the author’s purpose as they answer questions about a nonfiction text.

Finding the Purpose

Katherine Johnson was an African American physicist and mathematician who worked to create the first calculations to send humans into space. Learn more about this inspiring woman with this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet.

Who is Katherine Johnson?

Students will read a biography of Misty Copeland, the first African American woman to become a principal dancer for the American Ballet Theatre, and then answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text,

A Misty Copeland Biography

In this biography worksheet, children are introduced to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who in 1993 became the second female Justice of the Supreme Court in the United States.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Biography

After reading the last sections of Pam Mu&ntilde;oz Ryan&rsquo;s novel Esperanza Rising, engage your students in a discussion with these questions!

Novel Study: Esperanza Rising: Discussion Guide #4

Students will make meaningful connections between an adapted story from Aesop’s Fables and the world around them!

The Boy Who Cried Wolf: Making Text Connections

Thinking Routine: Parts, Purposes, and Complexities

In this language arts worksheet, students read a nonfiction text then represent what they read by creating a helpful chart.

Comprehension Chart

These thinking stems will set the stage for a rich reading environment and spark thoughtful reading responses.

Making Connections: Thinking Stems

Sink your teeth into some vampire history and lore with this playful Halloween worksheet!

All About Vampires

Budding researchers will head Down Under to learn about Melbourne, Australia, in this engaging project.

Make a Travel Brochure! Melbourne

After reading Jim Murphy&rsquo;s The Great Fire, help learners make connections between the book and their community with this engaging extension activity.

Book Study: The Great Fire: Natural Disaster Research Project

Get into the spirit of Halloween with a spooky info page, all about zombies! Your child will learn the ways of the walking dead as he hones his reading skills.

All About Zombies

In this biography worksheet, children read a passage about Booker T. Washington's life, then follow a series of thoughtful prompts to reflect on what they have learned.

Biography: Booker T. Washington

Kids match pictures showing what came first with pictures showing what came next.

Predict: First and Next #2

This fun sequencing worksheet will help your child practice putting events in order, which will prepare her for reading comprehension.

What Happens Next?

This helpful picture chart helps students identify the different text features found in the nonfiction books they are reading.

Hunting for Nonfiction Text Features in Pictures

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