Lesson Plan
Making Text Connections
This lesson helps your students practice making text connections so they can write about their reading. It can be taught on its own or serve as a precursor to the Reading Response Letters lesson.
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Objectives
Academic
Students will be able to make connections to a text and correctly format a letter about a book they have read.
Language
Students will be able to make connections to a text and write a thinking paragraph using a paragraph frame.
Introduction
(2 minutes)- Have students read the language objective to a partner.
- Explain to students that they will practice making different types of connections to a short fiction story before they write about the story in a reading response paragraph.