Connecting Individuals, Ideas, or Events Worksheets

Related ELA Standard: RI.8.3

Core Standard
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The idea of finding or uncovering a connection is a higher-level skill that many students have difficulty with. To be effective at drawing this out you need to understand the things presented to you in high detail. You will be required to evaluate everything that has been presented to you and make sense of it all. When it comes to people or events the raw facts of the case often make it obvious to you. Ideas on the other hand require you to think deeply. These worksheets will help students find commonalities between various relationships. When we are trying to find a common relationship between two things we need to be creative whether they are events, people, or just everyday ideas. You have to identify fixed point of commonality and maybe some common ground that is often looked over. You can also find things that make them very different. It is really funny, but sometimes differences that are stark between two things can actually be looked at as something they have in common. These worksheets will help students begin to find the commonalities between people, events, or notions.

Making Connections Worksheets To Print:

Developing an Idea through Comparison – How does putting your money in a bank compare to putting your money in stock, bonds and securities?

Making Comparisons with Analogy – Identify and explain the analogy in each of the short passages.

Cheer Up – Are analogies enough to connect events.

The Changing Face of Disaster – See if you can see the connection between these disastrous events.

The North and the South – The author examines how the North and South grew into two segments: socially, politically and agriculturally.

Making a Comparison – We look at a Dickens work from Hard Times.

Understanding Categories – By what criteria do monkeys fall into one of the categories?

Physical Strength and National Prosperity – Time to looks at Democracy in America.

Making More Comparisons – Another round with shorter versions for quick responses.

Creating Analogies – A tough skill for any talented writer.

The Sound of a Smile – When you are hard of hearing, smiles make a significant difference in your world.

Categories in Scientific Writing – Analyze a passage from Quadrupeds by Mayne Reid.

The Saffir-Simpson Scale – How is the connection between categories of hurricanes made?

Word Meanings – Why not examine another famous work? In here we look at A Tale of Two Cities.

The Drug Evaluation and Classification Program (DECP) – Different types of drugs affect people differently. This is why we classify them.

How to Connect Individuals, Ideas, or Events?


For a written text to be impactful, interesting and an easy read, a coherent interaction of ideas, individuals, and events in its plot is a must. Without connecting the ideas, events, and characters throughout the text, the author is likely to fail in conveying a clear story to the readers. Moreover, the text without a sense of connection from start to the end is likely to repel the readers instead of attracting them and can ruin an author's reputation.


It is better to learn the tips and techniques of connecting ideas, events, and characters smoothly in a text before starting the process of writing. Although the art of making connections in a plot gets refines with time and practice, here are a few tips that may help new writers in this regard:


Pre-Plan Before You Write


Many authors start writing their final draft whenever the first idea comes to their mind thinking that they will get some new ideas as they write. However, this is not the right approach to creating something of good quality. It is better to think about the plot of your text repeatedly before you start writing it. This will give you better ways both for introducing new characters, events, and ideas and also relating them with the already mentioned ones coherently and smoothly.


Do Not Introduce Everything Altogether


It is a mistake to introduce every character, idea, and event in a single paragraph. It confuses both the writer and readers as they are unable to trace the connections between them. It is better to introduce everything in the text in a scattered manner. This will make it easier to connect them.


Take Inspiration from Real Life


If you introduce the real event, characters, and ideas in your text, it would make it easier for you to connect them since you will know everything already.


How Do You Connect Ideas When Writing?

A good piece of writing usually contains many ideas. However, a strong linkage of these ideas is very important to make proper sense of the writing. Different ideas connecting to each other allows the reader to understand the progression of the main point without any confusions. Connecting ideas would keep the reader's interest and focus intact. While writing to connect the ideas, sometimes you might need to repeat things to highlight a certain point and pave the way for angle development. You might also need to back up your point, ideas, and concepts with proper evidence and examples. Examples can clarify and explain your idea further.


Here are some ways through which you can connect ideas when writing:


Repeat


You can repeat your idea to further clarify and explain the topic. It helps the reader make more sense of what you are trying to say. Repeating once or twice is enough. Do not fill the entire passage with repetitions of the same idea.


Some words and phrases that you can use to repeat the idea for clarification are: another way, simply put, in other words, to put it differently


Show Similarities


If you have a few different ideas in your mind to write about, you can connect them by showing the similarities in both of them. Here are some words and phrases that you can use to connect the ideas by showing similarities.


similarly, in the same way, correspondingly, equally, in a similar manner


Show Contrast


Another interesting way to connect ideas while writing is to show contrast. You can highlight the differences between two things to connect them. Some of the words or phrases to use while showing contrast are: admittedly, however, even though

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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