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Response to Literature-Kindergarten: Connections to text Rubric for Kindergarten. (Source: The El Paso Collaborative for Academic Excellence,The University of Texas at El Paso)
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The Great Big World, does not directly address Standard RI.K.3, there are activities for making connections among fiction and non-fiction texts with strategies that could be adapted to making connections within informational texts. At this site, you will find a list of resources (e.g. books) to use, sample activities and assessments, additional resource, and terminology. (Source: Common Core Curriculum Maps)
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Exploring with Friends in the Neighborhood - This lesson plan does not directly address making connections between events, ideas, individuals and pieces of information in informational texts, the lesson does address the ability to determine main idea and supporting details. (Source: Common Core Curriculum Maps)
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American: Symbols and Celebrations directly addresses Standard RI.K.3. Look in activities for “reading informational text” located in the Sample Activities and Assessments section. (Source: Common Core Curriculum Maps)
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Reading Informational Texts Using the 3-2-1 Strategy - In this lesson, students in grades K-2 learn to use the 3-2-1 strategy, which involves writing about three things they discovered, two things they found interesting, and one question they still have. After teacher modeling, students read a magazine article independently and use the 3-2-1 strategy to comprehend what they read. (Source: Read Write Think, International Reading Association, NCTE)
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Animal Study from Fiction to Facts - guides children to identify possible factual information from works of fiction which are read aloud; then they listen to read-alouds of nonfiction texts to identify and confirm factual information. This information is then recorded on charts and graphic organizers. Children can then review recorded information to determine how facts, ideas (descriptors) connect to provide a “fuller” look at the animal or animals. (Source: Read Write Think, International Reading Association, NCTE)
7. In this K-2 lesson,
Family Ties, students are guided to make text-to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world connections. (Source: Read Write Think, International Reading Association, NCTE)
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Introducing the Venn Diagram in the Kindergarten Classroom provides instruction on a tool that can be used for making connections. (Source: Read Write Think, International Reading Association, NCTE)
9. Check out this
Bedford County Tennessee website for lesson plan links.
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Investigating Animals for Inquiry based Research, is a lesson that supports the ability of K-2 students to recognize and describe facts and make connections between those facts in reporting findings to fellow students. (Source: Read Write Think, International Reading Association, NCTE)
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The Frog Beyond the Fairy Tale Character: Searching Informational Texts Students examines their prior knowledge about frogs, make predictions, and verify their predictions through research on the Internet. Students initially record their predictions about frogs on a worksheet with true and false columns. They then use the website The Somewhat Amusing World of Frogs to learn more about frogs and check their predictions. (Source: Read Write Think, International Reading Association, NCTE)