Text Connections

Explain the connections!

100

What are the 3 types of connections you can make?

Text-text , Text-self , Text-world

200

What is a Text-To-World connection?

Text-to-world connections are when we connect the text to something that is happening in the world right now or an event that has happened in the past.

300

What is a Text-To-Text connection?

When you connect the characters or situations from the book you are reading to another book or other form of media

400

What is a Text-To-Self connection?

Text-to-self connections are highly personal connections that a reader makes between a piece of reading material and the reader’s own experiences or life.

500

What is the different between a "surface" connection and a "deep" connection?

A deep connection helps you understand a character or a scene better while a surface connection is something that you or another might just have in common with the story.

Name that type of connection

100

When I was in second grade, I moved to a new school like the character Shirley did. I remember feeling like everyone ignored me and missing my home, so I can relate to what she’s going through.

Text-self

200

Percy Jackson reminds me a lot of Harry Potter. He was an outcast that didn't really belong in the beginning of the story who found out that he was different and special in some way.

Text-text

300

When Sam was reading A Wrinkle in Time she remembered that the characters in The Lightning Thief also go on an adventure to defeat or accuse a presence of evil.What kind of connection is this?

Text-text

400

Kayla read the Breadwinner and remembered learning about Afghanistan in Social Studies. The main character goes through problems that many children in Afghanistan go through everyday.What kind of connection did Kayla make?

Text-world

500

Carlos read Stargirl and is in a situation like Stargirl. People want him to change because he is different compared to everyone else, but he likes himself the way he is. What kind of connection is Carlos making.

Text-self

BONUS!

100

Why is it important for us to make connections when we read? 

To understand what we are reading on a deeper level

200

What type of connection happens when a reader links a struggle in a story to real-life news, history, or modern society?

What is a Text-to-World connection?

300

Make a text to self connection with a book you are reading. 

Answers will vary

400

Recognizing text-to-text connections allows readers to use their background knowledge of old plots to anticipate what will happen next in a new story?

What is make a prediction?

Name that connection!

100

When you relate something to yourself: 

Text to SELF

200

When you relate something to the world around you

Text to WORLD

300

When you relate something to another book you've read

TEXT TO TEXT