4th Grade Make Connections Worksheets

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’s theater activity.

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.

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.

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

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

Students will read a biography of Misty Copeland, the first African American woman to become a principal dancer for the American Ballet Theatre, and then answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text,

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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