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Making Connections
Making Connections® is a direct, systematic, and highly interactive comprehension program that teaches students strategies to build their comprehension. The program employs a scaffolded instructional plan that supports students by modeling, guiding, and then coaching students to independence. Fiction and nonfiction texts are tied to content-area topics to prepare students to analyze and interpret diverse materials across content-areas.
Students will learn how to:
understand skills such as cause and effect, drawing conclusions, and predicting outcomes.
locate, interpret, and organize key information in a text.
analyze words in a text using vocabulary strategies.
utilize text features such as maps, graphs, tables, photos, and glossaries to aid comprehension.
interpret a variety of genres including biographies, science & social studies texts, Greek myth and much more!
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What homeschoolers say about ESP Learning
Homeschool families appreciate ESP Learning's Wordly Wise 3000 series for its structured vocabulary development and clear, incremental difficulty levels. Many find it effective for building language skills and appreciate the variety of exercises, including analogies and comprehension. However, some note that the workbooks can be repetitive and may require significant parental involvement to keep students engaged. The price is considered reasonable for the quality, but a few users mention that the presentation is somewhat dated compared to more colorful or interactive curricula. Overall, it is seen as a solid, traditional vocabulary program with a focus on rigor.
About ESP Learning’s materials generally, not this resource specifically. Summarized by Learnamic from public homeschool reviews and discussions.
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