Literacy Head
Literacyhead: Images to Give Writers Ideas: Text to Self Connections
Enjoy with your students this collection of images that invite them to make personal connections. Students can practice articulating and writing about their personal connections using these images, a nice scaffold for later connections...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Connecting With Reading
A brief slideshow that identifies and defines the ways that readers can make connections while reading a text (Text to Self, Text to Text and Text to World) and instructions about annotating while reading. Includes a worksheet that...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Making Connections & Applications: Tutorial
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.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Popular Culture: Book Excerpts
This lesson focuses on making connections with the text including text to self, text to text, and text to world. It provides links to book excerpts from The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Twilight by Stephenie Meyer and information...
Read Works
Read Works: Grade 2: Four Lesson Unit: Drawing Conclusions
[Free Registration/Login Required] Designed to teach students to identify the difference between explicit information and conclusions and to make text-to-self and text-to-text connections. Lessons are based on the provided text "The...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Literature & Composition: Self Selected Drama
This unit focuses on the students selecting a play to read and study from an extensive list provided. A link to key drama terms is provided. Student read and respond to their selected text, learn the vocabulary, and take a quiz.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Connection Web
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.
Literacy Head
Literacyhead: Images to Give Writers Ideas: School
A collection of images of school to use as writing prompts. Students can make text-to-self connections, write creative stories, or just write about how the students in the images might feel.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Realism: "To Build a Fire" by Jack London
This lesson focuses on the short story "To Build a Fire" by Jack London which provides a good example of Naturalism, the relationship between man and nature. It features links to a PDF study guide and an online copy of the text. After...
US Government Publishing Office
Ben's Guide to u.s. Government: Constitution of the United States
Find background information on the Constitution of the United States of America, and learn the three basic principles upon which the Constitution was written. Additional content includes a look at the text of the Constitution, the events...
Shmoop University
Shmoop: To Kill a Mockingbird Analysis
Self-derected learning paths covering the literary devices in To Kill a Mockingbird.
Art Institute of Chicago
Modern Collection: Vincent Van Gogh Self Portrait, 1887
Click to enlarge Van Gogh's self-portrait from 1886-87, and read the paragraph of text explaining his methods.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Using Picture Books to Teach Plot Development and Confict Res.
Students read picture books to explore the concepts of plot development and conflict resolution. They first learn about the connections between reading and writing, and then revise their own writing. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.4
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Narrative Necklaces and Beyond! [Pdf]
In this lesson, students will create a piece of art that will identify an artist, but is not a standard self-portrait with traditional facial features. It will be a collage incorporating images, colors, symbols, and text to help describe...
University of Virginia Library
Prism: On Self Knowledge
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read Kahlil Gibran's "On Self-Knowledge" and highlight details that are sacred in blue and details that are secular in red. When finished, click save to see how others marked the text as well.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Self Help by w.w. Jacobs
The full text of the short story Self-Help by W.W. Jacobs. Register for a free account to unlock annotation tools, printing, and more.
EL Education
El Education: Journals of Trip to New York City
After a trip to New York City, students create reflective journals including text, photographs, and illustrations to share their thoughts and experiences, during their trip.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Book Pairings: "The Outsiders" by S. E. Hinton
Selected (9) reading passages (grades 7-11) to pair with the coming-of-age novel "The Outsiders" by S. E. Hinton. Ponyboy Curtis, a member of the Greaser gang, learns the value of family and friendship through his conflict with a rival...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Book Pairings: "Grendel" by John Gardner
Selected (6) reading passages (grades 9-11) to pair with "Grendel" by John Gardner. [Free account registration required for specific tools.]
CommonLit
Common Lit: Book Pairings: "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
Selected (9) reading passages (grades 9-11) to pair with "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro. After decades of striving to be the perfect butler, Stevens embarks on a drive through postwar England that prompts him to reflect on...
Education Development Center
Tune in to Learning: Scanning for Specifics
Self-scoring interactive lesson for improving skills in scanning informational texts and charts for keywords and specific details.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: American Lit: American Romanticism: Nathaniel Hawthorne
This lesson focuses on Nathaniel Hawthorne and his short story "The Minister's Black Veil." It features background information about Hawthorne and the short story, reading questions, the five stages of grief, a link to the text, and a...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Realism: "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" by Bret Harte
This lesson focuses on the short story "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" by Bret Harte who uses stereotypical but realistic characters to invent the culture of the "Old West." This story is an example of Regionalism, a sbu-genre of Realism....
Other
Reading and Writing Project: Oral Reading Benchmark [Pdf]
Reading and Writing Project provides a benchmark document for oral reading to help assess students word recognition and comprehension abilities.
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