Elementary School Make Connections Resources : Page 2

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

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

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

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

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.

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

This resource helps ELs make strong connections with a simple fiction text. After reading a short story, students will think about how they can connect with the text and use sentence frames to explain their thinking.

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

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

Use this handy worksheet to help your kindergarten students make connections between the illustrations in a fiction text to the story.

Invite your students to create a travel brochure about Mexico City and pull key facts from the informational text provided.

With a movie word search and fascinating info about early films, this set of reading and writing worksheets is sure to entertain your budding movie-lover!

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

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

Your students will be amazed to learn about different types of fungus in this nonfiction reading exercise!

Help your kindergarten students think about key ideas they’ve learned about penguins using this helpful worksheet.

This worksheet helps students identify and make connections between key ideas in nonfiction readings.

Practice strategic reading and allow children to monitor their own thinking and make connections between texts and life.

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

What's the best way to get to know a city? Play tourist! In this activity, students create a travel brochure on the 2008 Olympic host city, Beijing.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Making Connections in a Fiction Text.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Sharing Opinions About Stories.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Compare with Adjectives.

This open ended worksheet is a great way for students to practice sharing their opinions of read alouds while working on their reading comprehension skills.

If your child is reading a novel for school, encourage him to draw parallels to the real world in this fun news scavenger hunt.

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

Encourage students to turn vacations into educational experiences. This activity asks students to research a famous destination, pull key information, and plug that information into a travel brochure.