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Connection Lessons

Lessons on text-self, text-text, and text-world connections

Lesson
6-1

Lesson: Pete's Brain

Lesson
6-2

Lesson: Introducing Text to Self Connections

Lesson
6-3

Lesson: Text to Self connections- giving it a try

==> Review from yesterday's lesson about connections

==> Reread Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day. This time as you read, pause to allow children to share their thinking and connections.

==> You guys really made some connections today. What do you think I mean when I say text to self connections? We know that the text is the words and self is us right?

==> Let's look at this CD player. It has a plug. When we connect it (plug it) into the outlet it can make music. That's kind of what happens when we read. As we read things in the book remind us of things that have happened in our own lives and we make the connections and the book really comes to life for us.

==> Today as you read I want you to listen to what is going on inside your head again. What are you thinking as you read. We'll come back together later to talk and share about our experiences today.

Lesson
6-4

Lesson: Tracking our Connections with Sticky Notes

Lesson
6-5

Lesson: Text to Self Connections tied to our hearts

Lesson
6-6

Lesson: Spinner the Spider Spins a Web

Lesson
6-7

Lesson: Readers Make Meaningful Connections

Lesson
6-8

Lesson: Reader's Explain their Connections

Derby Car

Lesson
6-9

Lesson: Reader's Make Connections to Understand the Characters

Lesson
6-10

Lesson: Readers Make Connections to Understand the Story

Lesson
6-11

Lesson: Reader's Stay Focused on the Story, Not the Connection

Lesson
6-12

Lesson: text to text connections

 
 

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