Comparing Cheyenne Again and Follow the Drinking Gourd

May 20, 2022 Post a Comment

Today, I'm sharing our book list for making connections!

Exist sure to cheque out all our reading comprehension volume lists. We fifty-fifty have printable comprehension volume list.

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1 important comprehension strategy we want readers to use is making connections. There are 3 kinds of connections readers make before, during or later on reading:

text to self – This reminds me of my own life…
text to text– This reminds me of another book I've read/movie I've watched…
text to world– This reminds me this time in history/what's going on in the earth right now…

Y'all tin read more about making connections in The Measured Mom's post of our 10-week Reading Comprehension Series or in my article, Reading Comprehension Strategies: Reading Equals Thinking.

Book Listing for Making Connections: Text to Self

When picking text to self books, it is important to look for books that accept a theme that kids can relate to. Family, sibling rivalry, pets, school, or feelings are a corking identify to kickoff. The characters also need to exist realistic, especially for older kids. These just a few of the books I've used over the years to teach text to self connections.

Have you ever merely had a bad twenty-four hours? I have {many, actually.} Kids can totally relate to Alexander the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst.

We've all been embarrassed or agape nosotros won't fit in. Ira Sleeps Over past Bernard Waber is a great i with this theme.

You are Special past Max Lucado is some other practiced 1 near feeling like y'all don't measure upwardly. I Dear the underlying message in this book!

Accept yous ever wanted "those shoes?" Aye, the shoes that everybody else has, but you don't. I tin SO relate to this ane as a kid! Well-nigh kids tin can also relate to Those Shoes by Maribeth Boelts.

A family discovers a devious dog at the park while on a picnic and just tin't seem to go that dog off their minds. Finally, the prefer the canis familiaris as their ain. Kids who take pets {or want pets} tin can relate to The Stray Dog by Marc Simont.

Volume List for Making Connections: Text to Text

Books that brand for great text to text connections normally share a like theme, the characters have similar traits or the struggle/problem in the texts is like. These are a few books that make for nifty text to text connections.

Thank You lot, Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco and More Than Anything Else past Marie Bradby both have the theme of struggle and learning to read.

The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant and When Lightning Comes in a Jar by Ernest 50. Polacco are both wonderful books nigh family unit reunions and the fun that family can have together.

Crow Boy by Taro Vashima and The Name Jar by Yangsook Choi are both books about kids from a unlike state coming into a new school and how they learn to suit {every bit well every bit the kids in the classroom learning to adapt to them.}

Leon and Bob by Simon James {I wish this was still in impress!} and Jessica by Kevin Henkes are both virtually imaginary friends and the power of making a new friend.

Fairy tales are also a GREAT place to do some text to text connections, every bit there are MANY variations on these texts. It's fun to read them and compare them. Here are a few nosotros've enjoyed:

The Gingerbread Human being, The Gingerbread Babe past January Brett, The Gingerbread Girl by Lisa Campbell Ernst, The Gingerbread Boy by Paul Galdone , & The Stinky Cheese Man by Jon Scieszka
The Fiddling Red Hen by Paul Galdone, The Little Reddish Hen Makes a Pizza by Philomen Sturges, The Piffling Ruby-red Pen by Janet Stevens, Manana Iguana by Ann Whitford Paul, & Information technology'due south my Birthday by Helen Oxenbury
The 3 Picayune Pigs by James Marshall, The Truthful Story of the iii Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka, The 3 Lilliputian Wolves and the Big, Bad Grunter by Eugene Trivizas, &The 3 Ninja Pigs by Corey Rosen Schwartz
Goldilocks and the three Bears by James Marshall, Goldilocks and the 3 Dinosaurs by Mo Willems, Dusty Locks and the iii Bears, Believe Me, Goldilocks Rocks past Nancy Loewmen, &Goldi Rocks & the 3 Bears by Corey Rosen Schwartz
Piffling Red Riding Hood, Ninja Red Riding Hood by Corey Rosen Schwartz, &Niggling Red Riding Hoodby Lisa Campbell Ernst
three Billy Goats Gruff by Paul Galdone , The 3 Airheaded Billies past Margie Palatini, &The 3 Billy Goats Fluff past Rachael Mortimer
Mr. Wolf'southward Pancakes past Jan Fearnley pulls in a lot of fairy tale characters
Piggie Pie! by Margie Palatini is another text that pull in characters from other books and stories

Book List for Making Connections: Text to World

Historical fiction is a not bad genre as well as books that relate to something going on in the earth right at present when picking books for text to globe connections.

Follow the Drinking Gourd by Jeanette Winter tells of the Underground Railroad.

How Many Days to America? by Eve Bunting tells the story of refugees from a Carribean island as they set sail for America. Eve Bunting has several texts that work well for text to globe connections, including The Wall {Vietnam War}, Wing Away Home {homelessness/poverty}, A Twenty-four hour period'southward Work {other cultures}, Dandelions {westward motility in America} and Cheyenne Again {early Native Americans}.

The Man Who Walked Betwixt the Towers by retells the story Philippe Petit'due south tight rope walk between the twin towers in New York, but would be a great book to also chronicle to September 11.

The Swell Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry is a creative mode to teach kids nearly the destruction of the pelting forest and how we need to accept care of our world.