Before reading Linda Sue Park’s novel A Long Walk to Water, use these pre-reading prompts to engage students in a discussion about key story elements.

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

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

Kids will be fascinated by these stories of accidents that turned into huge successes!

These thinking stems will set the stage for a rich reading environment and spark thoughtful reading responses.

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.

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

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.

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