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Curated OER

Pick Life Goals

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore their life goals. They develop their own set of Life-Goals with teacher guidance. Students develop a list of good goals they have for school. They discuss the goals they developed.
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Curated OER

The Thrill of Big-Wave Surfing

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students view a PBS Nature program about big-wave surfing and participate in a class discussion about their experiences with surfing, body boarding, or body surfing. Students create a drawing based on a reading and post their art around...
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Curated OER

Alien Story

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice correct punctuation when writing a conversation by using clip art "characters" and the Inspiration or Kidspiration educational computer software. This great language arts lesson is intended for an upper-elementary...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Text to Self and Text to World Connections

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Learners will further their reading comprehension by associating real-life events with the events of a story.
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Literacy Head

Literacyhead: Images to Give Writers Ideas: Text to Self Connections

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
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...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Getting to Know Characters

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this language development lesson using the books by Kevin Henkes English Language Learners learn vocabulary and language structures to express feelings, make text-to-self connections, and practice the reading strategy of analyzing...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Connecting With Reading

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Making Connections & Applications: Tutorial

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Popular Culture: Book Excerpts

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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NPR: National Public Radio

Npr: Fake or Real? How to Self Check the News and Get the Facts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Read a story on Facebook. Read the headline and think it's too good to be true, but it looks like it's from a news site. Experts offer tips to help sniff out fact from fake. One of today's greatest challenges in a media bombarded culture.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: My Very Own Puppy!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The students will participate in a read-a-loud with the teacher by reading the book "Biscuit." The students will learn about taking care of a puppy. Students will also create text to self comparisons by using sentence starters to...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Caught Up in the Moment

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
Students read The Summer My Father Was Ten by Pat Brisson and discuss the father's actions and the consequences that followed. In small groups, students make and share text-to-self connections of when they were caught up in the moment...
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Read Works

Read Works: Grade 2: Four Lesson Unit: Drawing Conclusions

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Designed to teach students to identify the difference between explicit information and conclusions and to make text-to-self and text-to-text connections. Lessons are based on the provided text "The...
Graphic
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Making Connections

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
A printable graphic organizer for students to use when making text to self, text, and world connections while reading a text. Directions on how to use this type of graphic organize as well as lists of teaching ideas and related resources...
PPT
Tom Richey

Slide Share: Making Connections

For Students 3rd - 7th Standards
A slide show with thirty-two slides explaining how to use text to self, text to text, and text to world connections to improve reading comprehension.
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Literature & Composition: Self Selected Drama

For Students 9th - 10th
This unit focuses on the students selecting a play to read and study from an extensive list provided. A link to key drama terms is provided. Student read and respond to their selected text, learn the vocabulary, and take a quiz.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Can You Solve the Problem?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
During this lesson, students will analyze ways in which the character(s) in stories solve problems encountered. In small groups, students will brainstorm possible solutions to realistic problems in order to enhance connections to...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Connection Web

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
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.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This is a first grade reading comprehension lesson to teach students how to make text-to-self connections while reading.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Self Portraits: "I Come From" Poems

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, When I Was Young in the Mountains by Cynthia Rylant Mentor and Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox are used as mentor texts to help students realize what are important in the characters' lives and in their own...
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Literacy Head

Literacyhead: Images to Give Writers Ideas: School

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
A collection of images of school to use as writing prompts. Students can make text-to-self connections, write creative stories, or just write about how the students in the images might feel.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Savvy Story Structure

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
During this activity, young scholars learn to actively engage in reading by becoming more familiar with the elements of a story. Students will be required to think at a higher level and will enhance their understanding of selected...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Realism: "To Build a Fire" by Jack London

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the short story "To Build a Fire" by Jack London which provides a good example of Naturalism, the relationship between man and nature. It features links to a PDF study guide and an online copy of the text. After...
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US Government Publishing Office

Ben's Guide to u.s. Government: Constitution of the United States

For Students 9th - 10th
Find background information on the Constitution of the United States of America, and learn the three basic principles upon which the Constitution was written. Additional content includes a look at the text of the Constitution, the events...

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