Use this handy concept web to teach your students about ways to interact with text, including text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections that can help deepen their understanding of what they read.

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.

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

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.

This resource helps ELs incorporate their own thoughts and text connections into a thinking paragraph.

In this writing assessment, see how well your students draw connections between texts and the real world.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Compare with Adjectives.