Fiction Make Connections Resources

Help students hone reading comprehension skills and techniques with this classic Robert Frost poem.

Introduce students to the classic poem “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll with this seventh-grade reading comprehension worksheet!

Introduce readers to the poem "The Song of Wandering Aengus" by William Butler Yeats with this poetry analysis worksheet!
 

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.

Use this worksheet to encourage critical thinking and support students’ literacy development by asking questions before, during, and after reading.

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

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.

Use this Novel Discussion Guide for Parents as a guide to invite your child into a book discussion about their latest reading!

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

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.

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

Engage readers with an exciting musical extension activity to be completed after they've finished reading The Giver by Lois Lowry!

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

First, students will read a biography of Amelia Boynton Robinson, and then respond to comprehension questions, using text evidence.

Use this resource with your students to practice one of the core reading strategies: activating prior knowledge.

Use these pre-reading discussion prompts to prepare students for reading Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

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

Use this handy worksheet to help your kindergarten students make connections between the illustrations in a fiction text to the story.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the lesson plan EL Support Lesson: Wild and Windy Weather.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Compare with Adjectives.

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