Good Readers Make Connections
Making connections is a reading strategy that helps you find meaning in a text by connecting it to your background knowledge, experiences, memories, feelings, and more.
We make connections to…
- People we know
- Our experiences, memories, and feelings
- Other TV shows, movies, or books
- Our imagination
- Facts and information we already know
Sentence starters to help begin your connections:
- This reminds me of…
- This makes me think about…
- I’m making a connection to the part when…
Our Read Aloud book of this meeting: