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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Your students will find cause and effect relationships as they read about the night the Titanic sank.

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

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.

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

Get your students excited about making text connections!

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