A variety of student activities and teacher resources for using the concept of 'making connections' as a reading strategy.

The purpose of the video lesson is to review the making connections reading strategy and the difference between fiction and non-fiction.

The purpose of the video lesson is to outline effective reading strategies that good readers use. They include: predicting, making connections, visualizing, monitoring your own comprehension, determining importance, making inferences, questioning, summarizing and synthesizing.

The purpose of the video lesson is to review the making connections reading strategies, including text-to-self , text-to-text, text-to-world connections.

The purpose of the video lesson is to outline effective reading strategies that good readers use. They include: predicting, making connections, visualizing, monitoring your own comprehension, determining importance, making inferences, questioning, summarizing and synthesizing. The accompanying handout is a survey in which students reflect on their use of the reading strategies.

Grade 7 Reading Response Exemplars that can be used to support the Grade 7 Reading Assessment (RAD) or with teaching reader response skills with your students. These exemplars can also be used to help co-create criteria or support self-assessment processes in your classrooms.

A poster to help students and teachers apply inferring as a reading strategy.

"Into the Book is a reading comprehension resource for elementary students and teachers. We focus on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing."

A poster to help students and teachers apply making connections as a reading strategy.

This PDF is a downloadable lesson to accompany "A Monster at School" by Amanda Huneke.
The lesson includes the following literacy focuses:
- Reading comprehension (making predictions, making connections)
- Phonological awareness (rhyming words)
- Fluency (read with expression)

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With this strategy the students draw the meaning of the word in order to make important connections.