Connection Stems give students the language (and a reminder) to support their understanding by tying new learning to what they know about themselves and their world.

Students use this graphic organizer to describe similarities and differences between three objects or ideas.

Students use this printout to expand on connections they have made to a text and use those details to write essays or create projects about the text.

This printout helps students record ideas and situations from texts in one column, and their reactions in the second, thus making a connection between the text and themselves, another text, or the world.