Practice Making Connections with Henry’s Freedom Box

The themes of slavery, loss and freedom in Henry’s Freedom Box allow more sophisticated readers to practice making deeper connections. In order to fully engage with this story, readers will need to make connections to other texts they’ve read about slavery and the prior knowledge they have about this topic.

Henry’s Freedom Box is a Guided Reading Level Q, which is a fourth-grade reading level. As a result, this resource set has been aligned to the fourth grade Common Core State Standards and Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills.

This resource set can be used for whole group instruction to model how to ask questions while reading and for small group instruction to support students reading at or above a Guided Reading Level Q.

This resource set includes the following:

• Making Connections mini lesson complete with book summary, Link to What You Know questions, vocabulary words, student-friendly description of the comprehension strategy, and page-specific questions to guide instruction and/or student practice
• Student practice page and answer key in English and Spanish
• Reader's notebook prompt with optional Common Core "I Can" Statement
• CCSS and TEKS alignment
• Bonus: Making Connections poster

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