There are a number of social, emotional, and physiological reasons why teenagers start smoking, and why they continue smoking into adulthood. Help class members understand why smoking begins in youth—and how to protect themselves from...

In this slideshow tutorial, students will review the reading strategy of making connections. An explanation of the strategy is given, along with examples of how to make text-to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world connections.

A slide show with thirty-two slides explaining how to use text to self, text to text, and text to world connections to improve reading comprehension.

A printable graphic organizer for students to use when making text to self, text, and world connections while reading a text. Directions on how to use this type of graphic organize as well as lists of teaching ideas and related resources...

In this slideshow tutorial, students will review different types of reading strategies to promote comprehension of text. The strategies included are the following: making predictions, visualizing, questioning the text, retelling,...

Use this graphic organizer to help students make a connection when they are reading and learning to what they know about themselves and the world.

This graphic organizer helps students link supporting details to connections such as text-to-text, text-to-self, text-to-world. It can be used as a reading strategy or a prewriting strategy.

This rereading strategy has students answer three questions: What does it say? What does it mean? and What does it matter? The strategy is called by the short title of 'Say, Mean, Matter.' It gives students a way to question a text, look...

This Daily Teaching Tools collection provides graphic organizers for teaching reading and literature. Elaborate graphic organizers are provided for the following: story maps, character study charts, making text connection maps, conflict...