RI 1.

3 (Making Connections) Activity to Share

Katrina Hyland
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Monday, March 16, 2015 12:59 AM

Julie Hannigan; Colleen Jorgensen; Rebecca Kramer; Michelle Malkusak; Kristina McKuras; Karen Monaco; Shannon Nelson; Barb
Shanahan; Vincenza Truesdale
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Eileen Nelson
Attachments:Making Connections Activit~1.pdf (39 KB) ; IMG_0141.JPG (3 MB) ; Making Connections Graphic~1.pdf (33 KB) ; Making
Connections with 6 ~1.pdf (35 KB)

First grade teachers,

This is Jessica Diaz, Katrina's student teacher. If you are still working on RI 1.3, I have an activity that turned out to be
extremely engaging for Mrs. Hyland's class. The activity is real simple, and it only takes about 10-15 minutes. For the
activity, I printed 24 cards with a different thing on each card. In the set of cards, 6 cards made a connection, making a
total of 4 connections. I simply instructed students that they would randomly choose a card and find a classmate they
believed their card connected to. Once they agreed that their card was connected, students linked their arms. The
students then continued to move around the room to find the remaining classmates that they were connected to. I
modeled this beforehand to give students a better visual of how to play it by saying that I had a card that was a pine tree,
one student had a flower, and the other had a bush. I then had the two students stand up and we linked arms because
our cards were connected due to them all being plants.
The activity was fantastic for the kids, and they did a wonderful job using some higher level thinking skills of explaining
why they were connected with their classmates. You can wrap the activity up by having a brief discussion where each
group identifies their cards and what they found their connection to be.
Attached are the materials I used: the cards and a picture of the activity.
I will also attach two graphic organizers that I am using for formative assessments. These graphic organizers are based
off Kelly Doubek's intro to RI 1.3 graphic organizer. I am having my students read a text out of the Harvey and Goudvis's
text toolkits and filling out the graphic organizer to find the connection.
I hope these resources may be of some help to you with tackling this standard.
Jessica