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

Use this handy concept web to teach your students about ways to interact with text, including text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections that can help deepen their understanding of what they read.

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

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

Get your students excited about making text connections!

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

This resource helps ELs incorporate their own thoughts and text connections into a thinking paragraph.

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.

Show your child the benefits of making connections with the characters in a story with this introspective worksheet.

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.

In this writing assessment, see how well your students draw connections between texts and the real world.

Feel inspired to move to the beat with our reading comprehension exercise about Mexican music. Kids answer questions about the article in this writing 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 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.

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.

In first grade, kids will begin to reflect on and write about what they are reading. This worksheet will help them to practice.

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

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

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

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

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

Help your second grade students identify the evidence behind the author’s purpose.

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

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.