Making Connections in a Story Activity
This making connections in a story activity has 1st and 2nd grade readers match story card halves joined by but, because and so. Answer key included, so children can check how each event connects.
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Description
Good readers notice how the parts of a story fit together, and this making connections in a story activity shows young readers how to do it. One event can cause another, two characters can be alike or different, and one action can lead to the next. When children describe the connection between two characters or events, they understand the whole story better.
Children read an original story, Bear and Bird, about two friends and a red hat that blows into a tall tree. Then they play a matching game with 12 story cards. Each hat card starts a sentence from the story, and each soup card finishes it with a connecting word like but, because or so. Children match the cards, read the two halves together, check the story, and write the matching letter on the recording sheet. This story connection matching game works well in a reading center, a small group or with a partner.
What’s Included
- A How to Use page with simple steps, materials and prep tips
- The story Bear and Bird with a picture
- 6 Story Start Cards and 6 lettered Story End Cards
- A Recording Sheet for the card matches
- A 1st grade practice worksheet with a new short story and three questions
- Answer keys for the card matches and the practice page
Why Making Connections Helps Kids Learn
First, matching each start to its end makes children think about why things happen in a story. Second, the connecting words but, because and so give children the language to explain a connection out loud. Third, the practice page lets children use the same skill on a brand-new story, which shows they can do it on their own.
Ideas for Teachers and Parents
Read the story aloud first, then let partners play the matching game. After each match, ask children to say the whole sentence and tell how the two parts connect. At home, try the making connections in a story activity after a bedtime story and ask your child how two events in the book are linked.
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