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Preschool - 4th Grade Common Core Make Connections Resources : Page 2

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

Finding the Purpose

Help your kindergarten students learn about comparing and contrasting nonfiction texts using this helpful Venn diagram.

Nonfiction Compare & Contrast

Build critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions for parts 5-7&nbsp;of R.J. Palacio&rsquo;s Wonder.

Novel Study: Wonder: Discussion Guide #4

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

Making Connections: Thinking Stems

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the second part of Katherine Applegate&rsquo;s The One and Only Ivan.

Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #2

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.

Biography of Wangari Maathai

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.

Mexican Music Facts

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

The Boy Who Cried Wolf: Making Text Connections

Get your students to ask, “Why did that happen?” Support them as they make connections between key ideas in a nonfiction text about thunderstorms.

Cause and Effect: Thunderstorms

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.

Who Was Martin Luther King Jr.?

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.

A Series of Events: The Water Cycle

This fun sequencing worksheet will help your child practice putting events in order, which will prepare her for reading comprehension.

What Happens Next?

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.

Who is Katherine Johnson?

Children are introduced to Amelia Boynton Robinson, a civil rights activist who got her start at a young age accompanying her mother as she registered African Americans to vote.

Learning About Amelia Boynton Robinson

Build critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions for the eighth and final part&nbsp;of R.J. Palacio&rsquo;s Wonder.

Novel Study: Wonder: Discussion Guide #5

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

Where's the Evidence?

Martin Luther King, Jr. is honored as one of the most important leaders in the civil rights movement. Give your fourth and fifth graders a chance to deepen their understanding of his life and legacy through this reader&rsquo;s theater activity.

Readers’ Theater: Martin Luther King, Jr. 

In this language arts worksheet, students read a nonfiction text then represent what they read by creating a helpful chart.

Comprehension Chart

Kids match pictures showing what came first with pictures showing what came next.

Predict: First and Next #2

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Describing Our Homes.

Vocabulary Cards: Describing Our Homes

This worksheet teaches students to locate key ideas, provide evidence, and make connections in nonfiction texts.

Connections, Evidence, Oh My!

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

Making Connections Part 1: Literary Response

Use this glossary with the lesson plan EL Support Lesson: Wild and Windy Weather.

Glossary: Wild and Windy Weather

This open ended worksheet is a great way for students to practice sharing their opinions of read alouds while working on their reading comprehension skills.

Sharing Ideas About Stories

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Making Connections in a Fiction Text.

Glossary: Making Connections in a Fiction Text

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

Making Connections Part 2: Literary Response

This helpful picture chart helps students identify the different text features found in the nonfiction books they are reading.

Hunting for Nonfiction Text Features in Pictures

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Describing Our Homes.

Glossary: Describing Our Homes

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Compare with Adjectives.

Glossary: Compare with Adjectives

Help your kindergarten students think about key ideas they’ve learned about penguins using this helpful worksheet.

Interesting Penguins

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Preschool - 4th Grade Common Core Make Connections Resources : Page 2

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