Using Making Connections and the Super Six Resources to help your students from Jooya Teaching Resources. Blog post explaining how you can use the Super Six strategies of Making Connections in the Music classroom.
Using Making Connections and the Super Six Resources to help your students from Jooya Teaching Resources.

The Super Six Comprehension Strategy known as Making Connections, is one of the easiest for students to understand and use independently.

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In My Pioneers of Rock Music Unit, Making Connections is a strategy that I use before OR after every piece of reading we do in class. Most times I will use this strategy as a verbal discussion starter to get the students interested in the lesson before we actually start. Below is a lesson that I use in my unit, and an explanation of how I teach it to my Year 7 or 8 classes. Click the image to go to the Pioneers of Rock Unit of Work.

Pioneers of Rock Unit of Work for Middle School students from Jooya Teaching Resources. Includes the Super Six reading strategies, listening tasks, assignment and more. You just have to print and teach – all the planning done for you.
Pioneers of Rock Unit of Work for Middle School students from Jooya Teaching Resources.

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Making Connections

The Making Connections strategy is all about getting your students to make links between what they already know about a topic before they actually engage with reading the text. The strategy encourages students to look at all parts of the text in order to gain clues about what the type of information they think they will be reading about.

Description of Making Connections

Good readers make personal connections from the text with:

Questions

Question stems for students

Teaching Making Connections in the Super Six? Try this fantastic resource from Jooya Teaching Resources. This Making Connections Super Six Resource is designed to be used with any text you are teaching. Look like a Super Six Super Star in your staff room!!!!
Making Connections Super Six strategy resources from Jooya Teaching Resources.

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Pioneers of Rock Making Connections Lesson

This lesson is the first lesson to introduce actual information about how Rock music started.

The lesson starts with displaying the graphic below while the students have the written information about “The Roots of Rock and Roll” in front of them. As a class we discuss each of the questions in the graphic with the students offering up their answers, this doesn’t usually take long and I am always amazed at the different answers I get with each different class.

Using Making Connections and the Super Six Resources to help your students from Jooya Teaching Resources. Blog post explaining how you can use the Super Six strategies of Making Connections in the Music classroom.
Making Connections and the Super Six Resources to help your students from Jooya Teaching Resources.

Next we read the information and students ask any questions about the information they don’t understand, again this is different depending on the class.

After reading we discuss the questions in the next graphic pictured above. This part of the lesson is still the introduction to the next piece of information.

The next part of the includes more information. Again as a class we read through the text and discuss any points or questions that the students ask about. At this point I usually play some original Blues Music from Robert Johnson so the class an get a feel for the music we are learning about.

Using Making Connections and the Super Six Resources to help your students from Jooya Teaching Resources. Blog post explaining how you can use the Super Six strategies of Making Connections in the Music classroom.
Making Connections and the Super Six Resources to help your students from Jooya Teaching Resources.

The last part of the lesson is a Connection Web. For most of my classes, this is the first time we use this strategy so we complete the task together as a class. When I use this strategy a second time students complete as a group, then subsequent times it is done independently. Just like in the parts of the lesson. Each time this graphic is completed as a class, the recorded information is different! It always depends on the experiences that my students bring to the class. After we have completed the Connection Web on the board students are given time to complete the work in their books, at this time I put on some more Blues Music and take a little wander around the room to check up on how much work students have/have not completed!

Using Making Connections and the Super Six Resources to help your students from Jooya Teaching Resources. Blog post explaining how you can use the Super Six strategies of Making Connections in the Music classroom.
Making Connections and the Super Six Resources to help your students from Jooya Teaching Resources. Blog post explaining how you can use the Super Six strategies of Making Connections in the Music classroom.

 

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Until next time

Happy teaching

Julia from Jooya

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