Making Text Connections

A worksheet for 3rd graders to practice making text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections.

Grade 3 ELA ReadingReading Comprehension StrategiesMaking Text Connections

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.1CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.3

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ELAReadingReading ComprehensionText ConnectionsGrade 3

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Making Text Connections

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Read the story carefully. Then, answer the questions by making connections to yourself, other books you've read, or the world around you.

The Little Seed

Once there was a tiny seed. It lay in the cold, dark ground all winter long. It dreamed of sunshine and warm breezes. One day, a gentle rain began to fall. The seed drank up the water and started to swell. Then, a tiny sprout pushed its way out of the seed and reached for the light. Day by day, the sprout grew taller and stronger, until it became a beautiful sunflower, turning its face towards the sun.

1. Text-to-Self: What in the story reminds you of something that has happened in your own life? Explain your connection.

2. Text-to-Text: Does this story remind you of another book or story you have read? What is similar about the two stories?

3. Text-to-World: How does this story connect to things you know about the world? Think about nature or how things grow.

4. When you connect a story to your own life, you are making a connection.

5. Comparing a story to another book you've read is a connection.

6. Making connections helps you understand a story better.

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