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That Reminds Me - Making Connections Game
1 2 Pre & Primary Essentials Games & Activities English Analysing, Interpreting & Evaluating 18 Pages

That Reminds Me - Making Connections Game

If you are looking for a fun, versatile resource to introduce making connections to your class, then this is the one for you. This resource contains a range of scenario cards that can be used in 3 different game options in addition to independent activities. Students read the basic scenario and then choose to make a text to self, text or world connection.

Choose from 3 different activity options: oral activity, connect 4 game or the extension game. The cards can also be used as an independent activity where students use one of the Making Connections worksheets to respond to one of the scenario cards. When the cards are printed, fold them in half and glue or laminate to make them double sided.
 

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Learning goals

  • We are learning to use comprehension strategies to find literal and inferred meaning in texts.
  • We are learning to use comprehension strategies to find literal and inferred meaning in texts.
  • We are learning to use comprehension strategies to find literal and inferred meaning in texts and begin to analyse texts by drawing on our knowledge.

Curriculum alignment

EN1-4A old Draws on an increasing range of skills and strategies to fluently read, view and comprehend a range of texts on less familiar topics in different media and technologies EN1-VOCAB-01 new Understands and effectively uses Tier 1, taught Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary to extend and elaborate ideas EN1-RECOM-01 new Comprehends independently read texts that require sustained reading by activating background and word knowledge, connecting and understanding sentences and whole text, and monitoring for meaning
VCELY186 Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning about key events, ideas and information in texts that they listen to, view and read by drawing on growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features VCELY222 Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to analyse texts by drawing on growing knowledge of context, language and visual features and print and multimodal text structures

Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.

Differentiation

Extensions

Have students play the 3rd option where they will be encouraged to make deeper connections (text to text and text to world) to earn more tokens.
 

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