Curriculum Language Arts

Area
Gr. Level:1 Topic: Reading: Comprehension-Text-to-Self Connections
Subject: English Language Arts
Grade : Grade One Area : Comprehension Strategies

Lesson Title Reading connections

Objective Students will record meaningful connections from the text to their prior
knowledge and experience to help create deeper understanding and remembrance.
Equipment Text: My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother by Patricia Polacco
Needed: My Personal Connection Worksheet
Making Text to Self Connections Resource Sheet

Focus Question: Why do we make connections?

Instructions and 1. Book Intro- We are going to read My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother
procedures: about Patricia Polacco. This story is about Tricia and her older brother.
How do you think she feels about her older brother? (He’s mean, she
doesn’t like him etc.) They live with their Grandmother. What do you call
your Grandmother? (Grandma, Nana, Nan, Gran etc) Read first page
together. Discuss babushka and that she is from a different country so
they call her Bubbie like we call our grandparents different things.
2. We are going to make connections as we read and record them on our My
Personal Connections Worksheet.
3. Why do we make connections? (Better readers, helps us understand)
Read Directions on Work Sheet.
4. How do we make text to self connections (review). Pass out Resource
sheets and read aloud. As you’re reading, think about these questions to
help you make meaningful text-to-self connections. Some of us already
made a connection because we discovered that we call our Grandmother’s
by different names because they come from a different country.
Evaluation of Discussion during reading group.
content Collect and review worksheets.
Observe ability to retell and understand story via discussion.
Evaluation of Text-to-Text Connections
curriculum and Students are able to use technology to research what grandmothers are called in
technology other countries and compile a list of names that are different from what we call
integration our grandmothers.