reading unit of study

What are some good texts for teaching students how to make connections in reading?

Let's share our ideas! And successes!

Text to Self Connections

Wimberly Worried

Alexander and the Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Teach it:

Find some ideas for how to teach the lesson here:

http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=228

For my 4th and 5th grade advanced English Language Learner (ELL) guided reading groups, I've been teaching using the teaching points from a unit of study off of the Columbia Teacher's College Reading and Writing Project website.  The units were written by Lucy Calkin's graduate students and are very well developed, but tweakable.