Get your students excited about making text connections!

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.

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

Learn more about molecules and how they comprise the air all around us in this intro-to-earth-science worksheet.

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

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

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.

Engage readers with an exciting musical extension activity to be completed after they've finished reading The Giver by Lois Lowry!

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

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!

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

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.

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.

Use these pre-reading discussion prompts to prepare students for reading Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

During this activity, students will learn about Japan's capital city, Tokyo and create their own travel brochure.

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

As your students read the nonfiction text in this travel brochure activity, they will learn about the many cultures that have enriched the diverse city of Lisbon.

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

After reading a nonfiction text about the history, sights, and people of Vancouver, your student will create their own informational brochure about the city.

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

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Making Connections in a Fiction Text.

Will visitors see leprechauns while visiting in Dublin? Tell your researching students to find out with this travel brochure activity!

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

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.

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.

Your students will pick their favorite information and create a travel brochure all about Amsterdam, complete with a map!

This activity invites kids to explore Norway's history, attractions, and get to know its famous residents. After learning more about Oslo, your child will create a travel brochure and map of the city.