Unit 5

What Are the Traits of a Good Mystery?

Activity

Making Connections

Think Like a Reader


Another reading strategy that you can use to make meaning is to make connections between what you are reading and your life, the world, and other stories you have read. You have already practised this reading strategy in Unit 1 in the Lesson 2 - Making Connections section. If you need help remembering how to make connections, please look back at this lesson now.

Look at the poster What's the Mystery? Sammy on the Case that you downloaded on the Predicting and Inferring - Think Like a Reader page, and fill out the Making Connections worksheet with how the story relates to your life, the world, and other texts you have read.





Document: Making Connections
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  1. Download the document Making Connections.
  2. IMPORTANT NOTE: When the download screen opens:
      • Click the "Open with" button.
      • Select "Adobe Reader".
      • Click "OK".
      • You will then be able to view the document Making Connections.

  3. Print the document.

Save

How to save a file:

  1. Scan the document to your computer.
  2. Have the file open and select Save As from the File menu.
  3. Name your Making Connections worksheet in this format: jsmith_sammyconnections and save the file to your Documents folder.

Compare your responses with those in the Key by clicking here.