Grade 3 · English Language Arts · Unit 12 of 13
Connecting to What You Read
Link books, poems and plays to your own life.
What your child practises
Relating personal experiences to stories, poems, plays and information books helps children understand what they read.
Alberta Curriculum learning outcome: Relate personal experiences to interactions with people or information in books, poems, or plays. · connecting personal experiences to books, poems and plays
Sample questions
A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.
Question 1
Which connection gives the most help understanding why a character is excited?
🎉- The book has many pages.
- I read it on Tuesday.
- I like the colour red.
- I felt just as excited when I got to visit my cousins.
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I felt just as excited when I got to visit my cousins.
Hint: A shared feeling helps you understand.
Question 2
Which connection helps you understand a character the most?
🚲- I felt brave like her when I rode a bike for the first time.
- The book is blue.
- It has a lot of words.
- I like the cover.
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I felt brave like her when I rode a bike for the first time.
Hint: A feeling you share helps you understand the character.
Question 3
Why do readers make connections?
💭- to avoid reading
- to read faster
- to skip pages
- to understand a story better
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to understand a story better
Hint: Connections help us understand how characters feel.
Question 4
When a character is sad and you felt sad too, you share…
😢- an author
- a title
- an index
- a feeling
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a feeling
Hint: Sharing feelings helps you understand the character.
Question 5
Which is a good sentence starter for a connection?
💬- Once upon a time…
- This reminds me of…
- The end…
- Turn the page…
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This reminds me of…
Hint: Sentence starters help you share your thinking.
Question 6
An information book says bison eat grass. You have seen bison eating. How does this help?
🦬- it hides the page
- it helps you understand the facts
- it changes the facts
- it makes the book longer
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it helps you understand the facts
Hint: What you have seen helps you picture it.