Today’s Agenda:

1.Mini Lesson: Good readers make connections

2.Work Time: Independent reading time while focusing on making connections.

3.Debrief: Turn and Talk

It’s Reading Workshop Day!

1. Get your reading folder.2. Make updates to your

reading record.

Mini Lesson:

Good readers make connections to make meaning of what they

read.

Thinking StrategiesHow we make sense of the world around us.

• Questioning• Visualizing• Connecting• Inferring• Predicting• Concluding

Thinking Strategy: Making

Connections1.Text-to-Self2.Text-to-Text

3.Text-to-World

Text - to - Self

• Make personal connections with what you are reading.–What similarities do you and the

characters share?–What experiences in the text are

similar to those you have had?

Text – to - Text

• Make connections between what you are reading and another text you have read.–PRINT: Books, novels, magazines,

newspapers, poems, etc.–MEDIA: Movies, TV, YouTube

videos, etc.

Text – to – World

• Make connections between what you are reading and what is happening/has happened in the world.–Politics–History–Economics–Geography

Connecting – So What?

• Non-example:– I have a connection to Capricorn

because we both attend middle school.

• So what? example:– I have a connection to Capricorn

because we are both new to our school, and we have struggled to make friends.

Thinking Stems: Making Connections

• That reminds me of… because…• I remember… because…• I have a connection to…

because…• I can relate to… because…• I can connect to… because…• I see a connection between…

because…

As you read…

Focus on making connections. Write down at least THREE

connections in on post-its and label its type (T2S, T2T, T2W).Be sure to use thinking stems!

Today’s Agenda:

1.Mini Lesson: Good readers make connections

2.Work Time: Independent reading time; focus on making connections.

3.Debrief: Turn and Talk – share some connections you made today.