📚 Topic Summary
Connecting books to your life means finding similarities between the story and your own experiences, feelings, or thoughts. When you read about a character who is nervous about starting school, and you felt nervous too, that's a connection! It helps you understand the story better and makes reading more fun. These printables will help you practice finding those connections!
🧠 Part A: Vocabulary
Match the word to its meaning:
| Word |
Definition |
| 1. Experience |
A. To feel the same way as someone else |
| 2. Connection |
B. Something that has happened to you |
| 3. Similar |
C. A link between two things |
| 4. Feeling |
D. Almost the same |
| 5. Empathize |
E. An emotion |
✍️ Part B: Fill in the Blanks
Read the sentence and fill in the missing word. Choose from: book, life, connections, character, story.
- 🧩 When I read a ________, I like to think about how it relates to my own ________.
- 🌟 Finding ________ between a ________ and myself makes the ________ more interesting.
🤔 Part C: Critical Thinking
Think about a book you have read recently. What is one way you can connect to the main character or the events in the story? Explain your answer.