1st - 4th Grade Make Connections Worksheets

Get to know pioneering astrophysicist and mathematician Katherine Johnson in this reading comprehension worksheet!

Your students will find cause and effect relationships as they read about the night the Titanic sank.

Children learn about the environmental activist and women's rights advocate Wangari Maathai. Students will read a biography about the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

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.

With this worksheet, your students will connect the key ideas of this nonfiction text and identify the cause and effect relationships.

Use this resource with your students to practice connecting key events in nature. They will read about the water cycle and note the steps in order that they occur.

A famous "tea party" took place on December 16, 1773, and it was not one that had tea cups and sweet treats. Use this worksheet on the Boston Tea Party to have your students practice relationship between a series of events.

Read about how the capybara live and other interesting facts about capybara. Sure to satisfy your curiosity about capybaras!

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.

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.

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.

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

Get some cool facts about geckos on our reading and writing worksheet! Your little one is sure to be tickled by all the curious facts about geckos.

Help your students practice their informational reading skills as they learn about leafcutter ants!

Feel inspired to move to the beat with our reading comprehension exercise about Mexican music. Kids answer questions about the article in this writing worksheet.

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

Children are introduced to Amelia Boynton Robinson, a civil rights activist who got her start at a young age accompanying her mother as she registered African Americans to vote.

Get your students excited about making text connections!

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

Martin Luther King Jr. is honored as one of the key leaders in the civil rights movement. Students will read his biography and find text evidence to support or refute some statements before completing a short writing activity.

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

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.

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.

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

This worksheet teaches students to locate key ideas, provide evidence, and make connections in nonfiction texts.