In this slideshow tutorial, students will review the reading strategy of making connections. An explanation of the strategy is given, along with examples of how to make text-to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world connections.

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Use strategies that help you make connections between a text and events that happened in the past, as well as events that are happening now.

Why not assign a creative project through which students analyze historical documents and share their understanding through poetry and art? All of the resources for this project (documents, images, and examples of famous poems) are...

A brief slideshow that identifies and defines the ways that readers can make connections while reading a text (Text to Self, Text to Text and Text to World) and instructions about annotating while reading. Includes a worksheet that...

In this interactive learning module, students read an informational text about teen concussions and identify the key individuals in the text. They then identify and use details about those individuals to make connections between them, as...

Connect teaching goals with strategies that enhance learning. Select teaching goals, review the tips provided, then brainstorm and list strategies you would use to help students make connections. Compare your answers to other teachers'...

This lesson focuses on making connections with the text including text to self, text to text, and text to world. It provides links to book excerpts from The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Twilight by Stephenie Meyer and information...

In this slideshow tutorial, students will review different types of reading strategies to promote comprehension of text. The strategies included are the following: making predictions, visualizing, questioning the text, retelling,...

Ninth graders read chapters 18-27 of A Lesson Before Dying and examine how the interactions among the characters and the lessons learned by these characters develops a theme. Students also view the video, "Why Your Worst Deeds Don't...

View a timeline of Middle Eastern history, explore events through themes, and make connections through the use of big-picture questions such as "What's the appeal of religious militancy?"

A newsletter all about the brain including current research, anatomy and function of the brain, games, quizzes, and more. Animations and pictures make the site appealing to kids, and depth of content make it useful to parents and...

"How to Make a Wave", a novel by Lisa Hurst-Archer, is about an adolescent girl struggling to come to terms with a scar on her face and the absence of her mother. This extensive teacher's guide includes chapter summaries with...

Explore the literature connections, online activity, pencil and paper activity, and the manipulative investigation of patterns and geometric shapes on this page!

This collection of educational resources will help students make sense of anti-Asian racism today by connecting it with history. Americans of Asian descent have lived and contributed to the development of the United States. The first...

The Education for a Connected World framework describes the digital knowledge and skills that children and young people should have the opportunity to develop at different ages and stages of their lives. It highlights what a child should...

Use this graphic organizer to help students make a connection when they are reading and learning to what they know about themselves and the world.

This graphic organizer helps students link supporting details to connections such as text-to-text, text-to-self, text-to-world. It can be used as a reading strategy or a prewriting strategy.

In this lesson students learn how to develop an overview of the material using information gained from text organization to help predict content and make connections. They also to gather information from reading the introduction,...

Enjoy with your students this collection of images that invite them to make personal connections. Students can practice articulating and writing about their personal connections using these images, a nice scaffold for later connections...

"Connecting Writing with Grammar" offers links to six exercises in English usage and sentence structure.

Students learn about stoichiometry, and make the connection between stoichiometry and when they use the same mathematical process during their every day life.

In this field investigation, students will be able to observe, record, compare/contrast a variety of sinkholes located in the southeastern Minnesota area, including a significant one at the Harmony Karst Interpretive Site. The students...

This is a project-based lesson designed to guide students through the steps of planning a student organization community service project. The lesson focuses on the students' ability to apply knowledge and skills gained through...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan where students learn the difference between real and make-believe and practice sorting details into the two categories. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice...