1. Today’s Agenda: 1.Mini Lesson: Good readers make connections 2.Work Time: Independent reading time while focusing on making connections. 3.Debrief: Turn and Talk

2. It’s Reading Workshop Day! 1.Get your reading folder. 2.Make updates to your reading record.

3. Mini Lesson: Good readers make connections to make meaning of what they read.

4. Thinking Strategies How we make sense of the world around us. Questioning Visualizing Connecting Inferring Predicting Concluding

5. Thinking Strategy: Making Connections 1.Text-to-Self 2.Text-to-Text 3.Text-to-World

6. Text - to - Self Make personal connections with what you are reading. –What similarities do you and the characters share? –What experiences in the text are similar to those you have had?

7. Text – to - Text Make connections between what you are reading and another text you have read. –PRINT: Books, novels, magazines, newspapers, poems, etc. –MEDIA: Movies, TV, YouTube videos, etc.

8. Text – to – World Make connections between what you are reading and what is happening/has happened in the world. –Politics –History –Economics –Geography

9. Connecting – So What? Non-example: –I have a connection to Capricorn because we both attend middle school. So what? example: –I have a connection to Capricorn because we are both new to our school, and we have struggled to make friends.

10. Thinking Stems: Making Connections That reminds me of… because… I remember… because… I have a connection to… because… I can relate to… because… I can connect to… because… I see a connection between… because…

11. As you read… Focus on making connections. Write down at least THREE connections in on post-its and label its type (T2S, T2T, T2W). Be sure to use thinking stems!

12. Today’s Agenda: 1.Mini Lesson: Good readers make connections 2.Work Time: Independent reading time; focus on making connections. 3.Debrief: Turn and Talk – share some connections you made today.