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Having Fun with Common Core: Connections and Relationships

For the last few
weeks, I’ve talked about a lot of ideas for meeting CCSS for ELA in the Reading
Informational Text #1 and #2. This week, the focus will be standard #3, which
is all about identifying connections and relationships.

























Key
Ideas and Details #3

Kindergarten

Grade 1

Grade 2

With
prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals,
events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.



Describe
the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of
information in a text.



Describe
the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or
concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text.



Grade 3

Grade 4

Grade 5

Describe
the relationship between series of historical events, scientific ideas or
concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that
pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.

Explain
events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific or
technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific
information in the text.

Explain
the relationships or interactions between two or more individuals, ideas, or
concepts in a scientific, or technical text based on specific information in
the text.

In K-2, your students
are supposed to notice and articulate connections between two people, events,
or ideas in the nonfiction books they read.

In grades 3-5,
students should recognize the relationships between events, ideas, or steps in
some sort of  procedure. They should have
an awareness of passage of time, the sequence of events, and how one thing
leads to another.

Here are some great
books that you can use to help your kiddos develop these skills:

11 Experiments that Failed by Jenny Offill & Nancy Carpenter

Boy, Were We Wrong
About Dinosaurs by
Kathleen Kudlinski

Energy Island by Allan Drummond

Frog in a Bog by John Himmelman

John, Paul, George, & Ben by Lane Smith



Neo Leo: The Ageless
Ideas of Leonard da Vinci by Gene Baretta

Now & Ben: The Modern Inventions of Benjamin Franklin by Gene Baretta

Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai by Claire A. Nivola

Trout Are Made of Trees by April Pulley Sayre (illus. Kate Enderle)

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