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

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.

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.