Make Connections Worksheets : Page 2

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Get your students excited about making text connections!

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.

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

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

This helpful picture chart helps students identify the different text features found in the nonfiction books they are reading.

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!

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

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

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

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

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

Use this glossary with the lesson plan EL Support Lesson: Wild and Windy Weather.

Kids match pictures showing what came first with pictures showing what came next.

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

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

Use this resource with your students to practice one of the core reading strategies: activating prior knowledge.

Use this handy worksheet to help your kindergarten students make connections between the illustrations in a fiction text to the story.

Help your kindergarten students think about key ideas they’ve learned about penguins using this helpful worksheet.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Making Connections in a Fiction Text.

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

First, students will read a biography of Amelia Boynton Robinson, and then respond to comprehension questions, using text evidence.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Describing Our Homes.