Making Connections Promote Reading Comprehension with Direct, Systematic, Interactive Instruction

Making Connections® uses explicit comprehension strategy instruction and scaffolding to teach transferable comprehension skills, vocabulary, and fluency.

  • Comprehension & Vocabulary
  • Grades 1–6
  • Tiers 1 & 2
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Build Essential Literacy Skills

Making Connections® is a direct, systematic, and highly interactive reading comprehension program incorporating research-based instructional strategies to break down the comprehension process into teachable steps. Making Connections helps students to comprehend, analyze, and think critically about fiction and nonfiction texts. The series enables students in grades 1–6 to build meaning through strategies such as, monitoring comprehension, activation of background knowledge, rereading for fluency, summarizing and asking questions.

Teacher’s Edition

Flexible enough to use in any teaching situation, the Teacher's Edition includes:

  • Comprehensive lesson plans that include instruction for modeling, guiding, coaching, and independent practice
  • Point-of-use techniques to accommodate students of varied abilities, including multilingual learners
  • Text Connections activities that encourage student choice and challenge students to synthesize content across texts
  • Reproducible multiple-choice assessments that reflect standardized test formats
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Comprehension Library

Each thematic Making Connections unit culminates with a book from the Comprehension Library. These books give students the opportunity to apply newly developed skills and strategies in longer texts. Library books feature:

  • A balance of fiction and nonfiction titles
  • High-interest topics, colorful illustrations, and captivating photographs
  • Cross-curricular topics to build content-area knowledge

Making Connections quizzes can be found at arbookfind.com.

Student Books

Each Student Book unit provides multiple opportunities to develop, practice, and master essential literacy skills. These practice opportunities give students the confidence to transfer these techniques to all reading situations. Student Books feature:

  • High-interest fiction and nonfiction texts
  • Markable, interactive text
  • Multiple thematic reading passages for every skill
  • Content-area themes that support curriculum standards with a variety of genres
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Using the Making Connections Series, students will learn how to:

  • Understand cause & effect, draw conclusions, and predict outcomes
  • Locate, interpret, and organize key information in a text
  • Analyze words in a text using vocabulary strategies
  • Utilize text features such as photos, tables, maps, graphs, indexes, and glossaries
  • Interpret a variety of genres including biographies, science & social studies articles, myths, and much more

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Making Connections

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 Common Core Aligned

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Making Connections: Sample Lessons

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