Kindergarten - 6th Grade Make Connections Worksheets

Introduce students to the influential, trailblazing African American athlete Althea Gibson with this reading comprehension worksheet.

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

Martin Luther King, Jr. is honored as one of the most important leaders in the civil rights movement. Give your fourth and fifth graders a chance to deepen their understanding of his life and legacy through this reader’s theater activity.

Little gardeners, get to know your plants! See the cycle of a plant from its birth to adulthood, and read a bit about photosynthesis too.

Students will read a biography of Misty Copeland, the first African American woman to become a principal dancer for the American Ballet Theatre, and then answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text,

Introduce students to Japanese American civil rights hero Fred Korematsu with this informational 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.

Use this reading and writing worksheet to help second and third graders learn about the inspiring work of Jane Goodall, famous scientist and conservationist.

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.

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.

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.

Use this fun coloring and tracing page to help young learners practice their early writing skills while learning about Olympic snowboarder Chloe Kim!

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

Use this worksheet to encourage critical thinking and support students’ literacy development by asking questions before, during, and after reading.

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.

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.

Before reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, help students build background knowledge about the story's setting!

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as students read the final chapters of The Great Fire.