Reading

CURRICULUM FOCUS

We are learning to make a text-to-world connection.

VOCABULARY

Text-to-World connection: How the text reminds you of a world event. Students think about what they know of the world and connect this to the big ideas of a text. 

Big Ideas: The main idea in the story. 

ACTIVITIES YOU CAN DO AT HOME TO SUPPORT YOUR CHILD'S LEARNING

Using your dot books at home, make a text-to-world connection. What is the big idea of your text?  What do you know about this big idea - is there anything in our world that it reminds you of?

Use the sentence starter:

This reminds me of … because…