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

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

Get your students excited about making text connections!

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

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

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

Introduce students to Japanese American civil rights hero Fred Korematsu with this informational reading comprehension worksheet!

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

Use this pre-reading discussion guide to prepare students for reading The Giver by Lois Lowry.

Before reading Linda Sue Park’s novel A Long Walk to Water, use these pre-reading prompts to engage students in a discussion about key story elements.

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.

This pre-reading activity is a great way to prepare students for reading The Giver by Lois Lowry.

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

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.

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.

With this worksheet, your students will connect the key ideas of this nonfiction text and identify the cause and effect relationships.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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

Kids will be fascinated by these stories of accidents that turned into huge successes!

In this biography worksheet, children read a passage about Booker T. Washington's life, then follow a series of thoughtful prompts to reflect on what they have learned.

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

When in Rome, what should visitors do? Let your students become a tour guide to Rome, the historic city in Italy, with this travel brochure activity.

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

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

Katherine Johnson was an African American physicist and mathematician who worked to create the first calculations to send humans into space. Learn more about this inspiring woman with this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet.