🔗 Explorers: The Connected Story

A fully interactive A2.2 Kids reading lesson that trains cohesion awareness: master explorers become 'connector detectives' who read a connected story and understand how little joining words glue it together. Students begin with four warm-up questions, then learn a reading-strategy toolkit in two blocks: Hunt the Connectors (a four-step routine — read once, hunt connectors, ask what job, test by swapping) and What Job Does It Do? (a table mapping and, but, or, so, because, then/after that and before to their jobs). Ten key words (story, clue, connector, notice, circle, join, order, together, tricky, solve) appear in a scrollable table with kid-friendly definitions, and six become detailed review flashcards. The reading is a magazine-style Master File — 'The Lost Map', a 120-word Team Compass treasure adventure — containing exactly eight highlighted connectors, each with a hover tooltip revealing its job so learners can circle and explain them. Practice includes eight fill-in-the-blank lines rebuilt from the story (so, but, or, because, then, before, after, and) with live green/red validation, hints and a running score; a speaking section with five 'why that connector?' prompts and a five-line model dialogue; a guided 30-50 word retelling task with a four-point checklist and a live auto-saving word counter; and a full eight-question multiple-choice quiz mixing connector jobs with two reading-comprehension questions, featuring a progress bar, per-question explanations, a conic-gradient result circle and localStorage persistence.