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

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

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

Get your students excited about making text connections!

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.

Children learn about the environmental activist and women's rights advocate Wangari Maathai. Students will read a biography about the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.