Making Connections Year 2 Reading Comprehension Unit

Teach Year 2 students to make relevant connections that strengthen reading comprehension. This complete unit introduces text-to-self, text-to-text and text-to-world connections, then guides students to match each connection to evidence from a text and explain why the link is useful.

The sequence includes explicit teaching, worked examples, guided classification, independent practice and a final assessment. Narrative and informational texts give students varied opportunities to apply the strategy, while the game, sorting activity and exit tickets support active learning and quick formative checks.

What’s Included

• 17-slide editable teaching presentation
• Making Connections strategy display
• Connection Clue bookmarks
• Connection Quest board game, instructions and cards
• That Reminds Me? connection-sorting activity
• Five worksheet sets and seven red answer-key pages
• Making Connections exit tickets
• 22-slide editable quiz with 10 question-and-answer pairs
• The Stormy School Garden assessment
• Making Connections assessment rubric

Learning Focus

• Identify the three main connection types
• Link prior knowledge to a specific text detail
• Compare ideas, events and messages across texts
• Connect texts to real-world events, facts and issues
• Distinguish helpful connections from off-track ideas
• Explain how a connection supports understanding

Classroom Use

Use the presentation for explicit teaching and modelling, the game and sorting activity for collaborative practice, the worksheets for independent application, the exit tickets for quick formative checks, and the assessment and rubric for end-of-unit evidence.

File Details

The package contains a 30-page unit plan and printable resource PDF, a 17-slide editable presentation PPTX and a 22-slide editable quiz PPTX. Seven red answer-key pages are included. A 69-page buyer preview is supplied separately.

Please note: This is a digital download; no physical item is supplied. For use by the purchasing educator in their own classroom. Please do not share, resell or redistribute the files.