Making Connections provides an explicit framework to teach comprehension skills. It offers:
- explicit instruction in comprehension skills and strategies
- texts that are written specifically for each skill
- interactive big books that enable teachers to model comprehension skills and strategies
- Blackline Master books that provide practice and consolidation in comprehension skills and strategies
- fiction and non-fiction books where students apply comprehension skills in a real-world context
- Teacher's Resource Books and CD-ROMs that include a variety of assessment texts, assessment proformas and graphic organisers