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.

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

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!

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.

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

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.

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

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.

This activity invites kids to explore Norway's history, attractions, and get to know its famous residents. After learning more about Oslo, your child will create a travel brochure and map of the city.

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

This travel brochure activity summarizes the fascinating history behind the birthplace of the Renaissance.

Your students will be amazed to learn about different types of fungus in this nonfiction reading exercise!

If your child is reading a novel for school, encourage him to draw parallels to the real world in this fun news scavenger hunt.

During this activity, students will learn about Japan's capital city, Tokyo and create their own travel brochure.

Will visitors see leprechauns while visiting in Dublin? Tell your researching students to find out with this travel brochure activity!

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.

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