Active Reader Cards: Making Text-to-Text Connections
What is the same? What is different?
What is the same? What is different?
Central Idea or Lesson
The Problem
What is the same? What is different?
What is the same? What is different?
The Characters, People, or Animals
The Way the Author Writes
(Continued)
(Continued)
What is the same? What is different?
What is the same? What is different?
The Kinds of Details or Information
the Author Includes
The Setting
What is the same? What is different?
The Point of View
Central idea, details, setting, writer, and point of view images courtesy of clipart.com; problem image courtesy of iStock/© fleaz; characters image
courtesy of Thinkstock © Valdeci S. tiburcio/Collection: Hemera
Reprinted from Lessons and Units for Closer Reading, Grades K–2: Ready-to-Go Resources and Assessment Tools Galore by Nancy Boyles. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin,
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