Making Connections Concrete & Engaging Lesson & Activities- Comprehension Crew
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Connor also provides readers with strategies and confidence for making text to self, text to text, and text to world connections throughout a text to enhance their understanding.
Are you looking for a fun and effective way teach making connections? You’ve found it!! Included is a lesson and activities for connecting!
This resource includes everything you need to introduce and teach connecting to your students. It also provides a consistent framework for continuous reinforcement and application of the skill with any text and with all future lessons.
Connor The Connector will help you teach making connections to your students in a way they will truly understand and internalize. While Connor reads, he is always thinking of other books he has read, things he has experienced, and his background knowledge to see if anything connects. Connor also provides readers with strategies and confidence for making text to self, text to text, and text to world connections throughout a text to enhance their understanding.
This resource introduces concrete ways for students to interact with the reading skill through this character representation. This lesson format can be applied to any book over and over again! There are a variety of activities included in this resource for your students to practice connections.
*download the preview to learn more about the Comprehension Crew program
The resource includes the following:
- Character Poster, Visual Aids, specific Skill Anchor Chart (explaining text to self, text to text, & text to world connections)
- Character Profile– includes character profession, theme song, prop, gesture, phrase, likes, and how they help reader
- Concrete Connecting Activity
- Introduction & Modeling Lesson– can be applied to any book
- Teacher Implementation Tips
- Graphic Organizers– 33 differentiated options for any text
- Flip Books– 4 options that can be used with any text
- Interactive Notebook Pages
- Task Cards with Photographs– includes answer key and differentiated answer sheets
- Task Cards with Short Text– includes answer key and differentiated answer sheets
- Practice Passages– differentiated texts and scaffolded response options with answer keys included
- lower readability- Earth Day
- higher readability- Field Day
- Mentor Text Suggestions – includes a wide variety of picture books and wordless picture books
Now updated to include the graphic organizers, worksheets, and posters in Google Slides for your students to type on!
What is the Comprehension Crew?
Comprehension Crew is a group of characters each representing an essential reading skill. Each character has a profession, song, gesture, and prop that provide a concrete representation of the reading skill. These characters are used to model and reinforce each skill both in life and in text. The character helps students to understand, remember, and intentionally apply skills as they are reading.
Who are the other Comprehension Crew characters?
There are characters representing each of the following reading skills:
• connecting– TRY FOR FREE!
Non-fiction reading skills:
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