This Reading Comprehension resource includes practice work for practicing making connections with any text. It includes the following detailed practice:

1. Text-to-Self Connections
2. Text-to-Text Connections
3. Text-to-World Connections
4. Connecting with Text Quotes
5. Connecting Authors’ Styles
6. Connecting Characters in the Same Story
7. Connecting Characters from Different Stories
8. Connecting Main Ideas in a Story
9. Connecting Main Ideas from Different Stories
10. Connecting Key Details to Main Ideas
11. Connections Before Reading
12. Connections During Reading
13. Connections After Reading
14. Connections Before, During, and After Reading
15. Background Knowledge and Interpreting Characters
16. Connections to Different Cultures
17. Background Knowledge and Interpreting Settings
18. Background Knowledge and Interpreting Topics
19. Background Knowledge and Interpreting Story Elements
20. Background Knowledge and Connections

These pages are great for big kids to practice making connections.

This resource is appropriate for grades 2-6.

GOOGLE CLASSROOM DIGITAL VERSION AVAILABLE!

The graphic organizers are now available in a digital version!

The printable/digital pages in this resource can be used in several ways, including:

• As daily morning work to review comprehension skills
• During guided reading small groups
• During independent reading time or centers
• To work with partners and small groups
• As an assessment for teachers to monitor students’ reading abilities
• As homework review sheets
• As a quick and fun 10 minute time filler.
• As ‘when you’re finished’ additional work for students
• To use with substitute teachers

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CLICK THE LINKS TO SEE EACH COMPREHENSION SET:

1. Analyzing
2. Background Knowledge
3. Cause and Effect
4. Compare and Contrast
5. Judging
6. Making Connections
7. Metacognition
8. Predicting
9. Questioning
10. Summarizing
11. Synthesizing

Copyright © 2016 Jen Bengel

Revised 2020

All rights reserved by author.

Permission to copy for single classroom use only.

Electronic distribution limited to single classroom use only.

Not for public display.

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