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Reading Strategy 6

“Connect what you read with what you already know.”

Good readers make connections between their experiences and the text, comparing and contrasting characters, ideas and events.

Header-Reading-Activities

  • Bookmark
  • Concept Circles
  • Directed Reading/Thinking
  • Graphing
  • Jigsaw
  • Know-Wonder-Learn
  • Mood Swing
  • Paper Bag Presentation
  • Question/Answer Relationship
  • Question and Revise
  • Read-Draw-Confirm
  • Response Logs/Reflective Journal
  • Semantic Mapping/Webbing
  • Snatching a Series
  • Think Aloud
  • Thinking Boxes
  • Thinking While Reading
  • Venn Diagram

Header-Reading-Writing-Connect-Activities-2Primary
  • 12 Ways to Get to 11
  • Bats at the Library
  • Frisson l’écureuil
  • The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School
  • In My Heart
  • Le corbeau
  • Les forces, c’est quoi?
  • My Blue Is Happy
  • Peace Is an Offering
  • Special Delivery
  • Taan’s Moons
  • The BFG
  • The Bravest of the Brave
  • The Salamander Room
  • Oh, un oiseau sur ta tête!
  • Who Is the Forest For?
  • You Call That Brave?

Intermediate
  • Duncan’s Way
  • Frog Girl
  • La belle lisse poire
  • Mr. Hiroshi’s Garden
  • One Grain of Rice
  • Out of My Mind
  • Sparrow Girl
  • Storm Boy
  • The Man Who Counted
  • The One and Only Ivan
  • The Rabbits (Intermediate)
  • Une Figue de Rêve
  • Wonder

Secondary
  • A Coyote Columbus Story
  • Childhood Obesity
  • Climate Change
  • The Emperor of Maladies
  • Legend of the Sugar Girl
  • L’il Trig’s Big Adventure
  • Lowered Riverbed Reveals “Secrets”
  • Navigating Panama Canal North
  • Thank You, M’am
  • The Rabbits (Secondary)
  • The Three Questions
  • Way Home
  • We Are All Born Free

teacher hints

Suggested teacher questions:

"What does this story remind you of?" (Personal event? Story? Movie?)

"What caused ________ to happen?"

"In what ways are these characters/events/pieces of information the same or different?"

"What is the relationship between these characters/events/pieces of information?"

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