Making Connections in Reading

6.5E Making Connections

Many times, when you read, you make connections. Sometimes they connect to what has happened in your own life. Other times, they may connect to another text or the world in which you live. As a reader, these connections help you understand a text at a deeper level. These connections give you a reason for reading and help you become actively involved in the text you are reading. This helps you understand the text, as well as the world around you.

Open Ended

Give an example of how you can make a connection to the text that you are reading. Be sure to explain why.

Text-to-self

Relating what you read to your own experiences; finding the similarities and differences between you and the text.

Open Ended

Give an example of how you can make connection between texts. Be sure to explain in detail a time that you did.

Text-to-text

Relating two or more different texts read; finding the similarities and differences between the texts.

Open Ended

Give an example of a time when you made a connection to the world. Consider events that are a part of what is going on in the world today. For example, the Bethlehem star showed up in the skies a week ago and we have been reading about the solar system. What connection can you make to what just happened to what we have been reading?

Text-to-society

relating what you read to what is going on in the world; finding the similarities and differences between what you see in the world and the text.

Multiple Choice

What is the author's purpose for adding the photo of the insect?

• Provide a visual and how the bloodsucker punctures the skin.

• Provide a visual and how the bloodsucker lands on the skin.

• It is part of the story.

Multiple Choice

What is the insect?

• bloodsucker

• mosquito

• little villain

• fly

Open Ended

Write down any personal connections you have to bloodsuckers.

Open Ended

What is the key idea the author is trying to make in this introduction to bloodsuckers?

Open Ended

After reading paragraph 2-3 about bloodsuckers, what questions do you still have about them?

Multiple Choice

Read this sentence from paragraph 2

"It also soaks into the flesh, thinning the blood."

Which sentence from paragraph 3 illustrates a similar idea?

• As the blood seeps into the sliced flesh, it is thinned because of the oxygen

• As blood emerges from the punctured flesh, it is thinned as it mixes with the saliva.

Open Ended

What is one similarity between a flea and lice?