If you're looking for a quick, efficient way to teach making connections, this is it! Do your students struggle to make deep, meaningful connections that further their reading comprehension? Do they need help identifying what type of connections they are making?

This print-and-go set of 5 mini lessons will help you effectively teach making connections with your students! Great for both whole group and small group instruction, these mini lessons follow the official mini lesson outline of: connection, teaching point, teach, practice, and link.

This mini lesson set includes hands-on activities to help teach making connections--with everything you need, including teacher modeling pages, teacher prompting suggestions, anchor charts, passages, and original texts! It also includes student practice pages and activity cards to help target skills and foster independent or partner/small group practice! To help you out even more, answer keys and teacher suggestions are provided for all activities!

Even better, when there are student practice pages that apply to a lesson, a digital version of each one is provided! These digital files are compatible with Google Slides, Google Classroom, and PowerPoint.

The lessons included in this set are:

• Color Coding Connections
• Grouping Connections
• Picture Sort of Connections
• To Connect or Not
• Weak vs. Deep Connections

These lesson plans, while short and sweet, are detailed enough to leave for a substitute or give to a teaching aide--especially since everything you need is included right in this file!