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Boars and Baseball: Making Connections

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Boars and Baseball: Making Connections

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Overview:

How does the story connect to your own life, another text you have read, or the world around you? In this lesson, students will make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections after reading In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson. Students gain a deeper understanding of a text when they make authentic connections. After reading the novel, the instructor introduces and models the strategy of making connections. After sharing and discussing connections, students choose and plan a project that makes a personal connection to the text.

This lesson uses In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson as an example, but this activity is effective with any work of literature in which connections are important.

Content Standard(s):

English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 3	4. Ask and answer questions using complete sentences and grade-level vocabulary. Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: 4. Questions Complete sentences Grade-level vocabulary Knowledge: 4. Students know: Asking questions in complete sentences with grade-level vocabulary is a strategy to learn information. Answering questions questions in complete sentences with grade-level vocabulary is a method to provide others with information. Skills: 4. Students are able to: Ask clarifying questions using complete sentences and grade-level vocabulary. Answer questions using complete sentences and grade-level vocabulary. Understanding: 4. Students understand that: They can demonstrate active listening skills by asking and answering questions using complete sentences and grade-level vocabulary.
English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 3	5. Express ideas, opinions, and feelings orally in a logical sequence clearly, accurately, and precisely, using appropriate volume, clear pronunciation, and standard English grammar. Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: 5. Ideas Opinions Feelings Logical sequence Accurately Precisely Appropriate volume Clear pronunciation Standard English grammar Knowledge: 5. Students know: Orally communicating ideas, opinions, and feelings, requires a logical sequence, accurate and precise language, appropriate voice volume, clear speech pronunciation, and the use of standard English grammar. Skills: 5. Students are able to: Orally express ideas, opinions, and feelings in a logical sequence and with accurate and precise language. Use appropriate voice volume, clear speech pronunciation, and standard English grammar when orally presenting ideas, opinions, and feelings. Understanding: 5. Students understand that: When presenting their ideas, opinions, and feelings orally, they must use a logical sequence, an appropriate volume for speaking, clear pronunciation of words, and standard English grammar, so others can clearly comprehend (understand) what they are trying to express.
English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 3	26. Use text comparisons (text to text, text to self, and text to world) to make meaning. a. Use prior knowledge to determine similarities between texts they are reading and texts they have previously read. b. Compare different versions of the same story. Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: 26. Text comparison Text to text Text to self Text to world Meaning 26a. Prior knowledge Determine Similarities 26b. Compare Versions Knowledge: 26. Students know: Comparison is identifying similarities between two things. Text to text comparison means to identify similarities between two texts. Text to self comparison means to identify similarities between a text and a personal experience. Text to world comparison means to identify similarities between a text and a current event or background knowledge. 26a. Prior knowledge is what they already know. Information gathered from texts they have previously read becomes part of their prior knowledge. 26b. Comparison is identifying similarities between two things. Skills: 26. Students are able to: Compare two texts to make meaning of the information presented in the text. Compare a text to their personal experiences to make meaning of the information presented in the text. Compare a text to a current event or their background knowledge to make meaning of the information presented in the text. 26a. Use prior knowledge to make comparisons between texts. Determine similarities between a text they are currently reading and a text that have read in the past. 26b. Identify similarities between different versions of the same story. Understanding: 26. Students understand that: Their comprehension will be enhanced by making multiple connections between texts, themselves, and the real world. 26a. Their prior knowledge can help make connections between texts. Each text they read increases their background knowledge, and they can make connections to new texts to improve their comprehension. 26b. Different authors can produce different versions of the same story. They can improve their comprehension by making connections between two similar texts.

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Cassie Raulston

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Boars and Baseball: Making Connections