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

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 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.

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

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

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

Get your students excited about making text connections!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Making Connections in a Fiction Text.

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

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.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Sharing Opinions About Stories.

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.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Sharing Opinions About Stories.