How to teach Text-to-Text Comprehension Strategy | Writing About Reading Series
RSS Feed How do you teach text-to-text connections in first grade without making the strategy too complicated for young readers?
In this episode of The Education Connection, Robin Wilson shares the simple, step-by-step way she teaches first graders to connect one text to another as part of her Writing About Reading series.
You'll hear how Robin uses a simple anchor chart with two books and a large arrow, chooses books with easy-to-find connections, and spreads the lesson across two days. She also shares why different versions of familiar stories, such as The Three Little Pigs and Cinderella, work so well when introducing this reading comprehension strategy.
Then, Robin explains how she moves students from talking about their connections to drawing and writing about them.
If they can say it, they can write it!
🎁 FREE Text-to-Text Connections Printable
Grab the free printable that goes along with this episode. It gives young readers a simple visual for connecting two texts and prompts them to think about characters, events, problems, and settings.
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📚 Text-to-Text, Text-to-Self & Text-to-World Resource
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This episode is perfect for first-grade teachers, primary teachers, homeschool educators, and anyone looking for practical ways to teach reading comprehension, making connections, text-to-text connections, and writing about reading.
Next in the Writing About Reading series: Text-to-Self Connections!
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