CCSS Reading Lab

Cross-Text
Connector

Read across texts. Find the shared ground, connect proof from both sources, determine how the texts agree, differ, conflict, or transform, and build a stronger synthesis.

Shared Ground → Evidence → Relationship → Synthesis

Set up your text-pair comparison

Choose a grade band, text pathway, and practice mode. Every session draws from a larger editable paired-text bank.

Grade band

Text pathway

Practice mode

Cross-Text Connector

Transfer

1

Find the shared ground

2

Link the source evidence

Choose 2 details

3

Name the relationship

4

Build the synthesis

Shared Ground

Source Evidence

Relationship

Synthesis

Best Cross-Text Connection

Student Completion Report

Cross-Text Connector

Student name

Teacher

Class / period

Grade

Pathway

Mode

Standards

Completed

Session

Overall

Points

Fully connected

Time

Hints

Transfer

Cross-text breakdown

Demonstrated strength

Best next step

Cases to revisit

One cross-text move I will use in my next reading:

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Cross-TextConnector

Set up your text-pair comparison

Grade band

Text pathway

Practice mode

Cross-Text Connector

Find the shared ground

Link the source evidence

Name the relationship

Build the synthesis

Shared Ground

Source Evidence

Relationship

Synthesis

Best Cross-Text Connection

Cross-Text Connector

Cross-text breakdown

Demonstrated strength

Best next step

Cases to revisit

How Cross-Text Connector works

Grade-band standards

Cross-Text
Connector