Making Connections

Welcome back to school! Hope everyone had a wonderful Labor Day weekend. Today I am going to "talk" about making connections. We can connect (and teach our kids to connect) to books in three ways:

Text to Text
Text to Self
Text to World

Text to Self:
Text-to-self connections are connections that readers make between the text and their own life experiences. Example: “This story reminds me of a visit to my grandmother’s house.”

Text to Text:
Text-to-text connections are connections that readers make to other things they have read, such as other books by the same author, or other stories related by genre or topic. Example: “This character has a similar problem to one that I read about in a story last month.”

Text to World:
Text-to-world connections are broader connections that readers make while reading. A text might remind students of something they learned through movies, television, newspapers, or magazines. Example: “I saw a movie that showed some of the ideas in this story.”

You may print out posters for these connection to post in your classroom. This is also a link to lesson plans for teaching these connections. Remember to teach your children that TEXT is not just a way to communicate with your phone. Teach them that text is words on a page.

http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=228

Let me know what you think! Have a great week!!