This helps students to analyze different readings and can help students to develop questions to discuss the book as well. Students will draw and connect a text to something in their lives, another text, and then a current event in the world. It comes with a box of questions students can use to guide them to make a connection.
To help with discussion questions, I have students to the Text to worksheet and then think about what they learned about the text and lead a short discussion. "Do you bel