Making Connections

A Selective Webliography of Resources

Websites:

Into the Book

This is a good website for helping you to plan a lesson using the making connections reading strategy. It has information on the reading strategy that can be used for further research on the subject. It is also a good source for getting lesson plan ideas and bibliographies of books that can be used for lessons.

Making Connections

This web page focuses on teaching people about the making connection strategy and how to implement the strategy in the classroom. It also has a few worksheets that can be printed.

Mosaic Listserv – Making Connections activities

This website is full of activities for students and assessment guides for teachers.

Reading is Fundamental – Unlocking Student Understanding – Making Connections

Go here to get activities and lesson plan ideas for students.

Text to Self Connection Lesson Plan

 This website has a lesson plan for making connections.

Quotes:

When students can make personal connections to the books they read,
 they associate new meanings with the words, and the text becomes easier to read.
1(Doe, H.M., 2003, p. 151)

When I read Bean Trees, I made connections between my life and Taylor’s.
I wondered what I would do and how my family would act in the same situation.
I connect everything I read to my life. 
Thinking about my life helps me understand what I read. 2(Becky, grade 12 in Tovani, C., 2000, p. 63)

1Doe, H.M. (2003).  Technology Through Children’s Literature.  Portsmouth, NH: Teacher
Ideas Press.  (372.64 Doe)

2Tovani, C. (2000).  I Read It but I Don’t Get It: Comprehension Strategies for Adolescent Readers. Portland, ME: Stenhouse Publishers.

 

Page updated: 28-Sep-2007

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