Connecting to Literature

Use these samples, lessons, and classroom ideas to inspire activities in your classroom that connect students to the books they are reading.

These multimedia literature connections were created by students using Wixie.


Book Cover Design

Students create a new cover for a book to show comprehension and explore character, plot, setting, symbolism, and conflict.


Combine Reading with Making

Even young students want to be authors! Get them making their own books and pages in response to the ones you read!


Book Trailers

Students explore character, plot, and theme and write persuasively as they develop a movie-style trailer for a book they have read.


Adapt Your Favorite Story

After reading a book like Judi Barrett's Things That are Most in the World, students brainstormed superlatives and created pages with textual and visual context clues to help other readers understand.


Give students choice

Use this choice board to put students in charge of how they will demonstrate comprehension.

Students are using Wixie to bring their words, their voice, and their art to the curriculum.

Story Retelling

Perfect Pets

Country and City Sort

Literature Response

Shape of Things Retelling

Book Bentos

Responding to Literature

Adapt Stories

Character and Setting

Making Text-to-Text Connections

Finding Theme (with Evidence!)

Visualizing Text

Favorite Scene

Beginning, Middle, End

How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin? by Margaret McNamara

Our Favorite Dr. Seuss Book

Compare Fiction and Nonfiction

Character, Setting, Events

Why Not Dream Bubbles

Character Traits

Snowmen at Night by Carolyn Buehner

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