This graphic organiser, ‘Connect the Dots’ allows students to apply prior knowledge and understanding of a text to the world around them, as well as to themselves.
This graphic organiser, ‘Connect the Dots for Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ asks students to make connections between characters or simple events in literature to themselves, to other books they have read, or to people or events in their own lives.
This graphic organiser, ‘In My Life Balloons’ helps students to understand the themes and ideas in a text by relating events in the text to their own experiences.
This graphic organiser, ‘In My Life Balloons for The Library Card’ asks students to read and reflect on The Library Card by Jerry Spinelli and connect the themes and ideas in the book to their personal lives.
This graphic organiser, ‘Reflecting Triangles’ promotes application of knowledge as students reflect on three of the elements of literature and connect them with their own lives.
This graphic organiser, ‘Reflecting Triangles for Alexander’ asks students to respond to how Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst relates to something in their own lives.
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