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

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

Students will practice making connections between a text and their real life experiences in this reading comprehension activity.

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.

Before reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, help students build background knowledge about the story's setting!