How Ideas Connect

Connect two events, ideas, or pieces of information.

Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.

What children learn in Level 48

Ideas in a text connect to each other. One thing can make another thing happen.
Why did the puddles dry up? Because the sun warmed them! The sun made the puddles dry up.
The words because and so show how ideas connect. Because tells why. So tells what happened next.
Texts can also show how two things are alike and different. Bats and birds both fly, but birds have feathers and bats have fur.
Your turn! Put the butterfly's life in order.
Ask: why did this happen? What happened next? How are these alike?

Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards:

1.T.T.2.b — Describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text. (I)