Making Text Connections

What type of connection is this : I read a story about what life was like before electricity. It reminded me of a time I went camping with my family and we only had the light of our fire to see.

• Text to World

• Text to Self

• Text to Text

• Text to Media

What type of connection is this : I read a story about a boy who visited a magic land with witches and wizards. It reminded me of the book Harry Potter.

• Text to Self

• Text to World

• Text to Text

• Text to Media

A connection that is made between a text and our own personal life and experience is called?

• Text to Text

• Text to World

• Text to Self

• Text to Media

A connection we make between a text and the real world and current events is called?

• Text to Self

• Text to Text

• Text to World

• Text to Media

A connection we make between one text and another text is called?

• Text to Text

• Text to Self

• Text to World

• Text to Media

Making text connections deepens our understanding of the text and helps us become better readers.

• True

• False

Connecting something I have read to something that I have seen in the media (TV, radio, internet, social media) is called?

• Text to Text

• Text to Self

• Text to World

• Text to Media

I read an weather report in the newspaper that said there was a big winter storm coming. It reminded me of a book that I checked out from the library about people trying to survive a blizzard.

• text-to-self

• text-to-text

• text-to-world

I read a book about how grocery stores get their food. It reminded me of the grocery trucks that drive by on the highway every day.

• text to self

• text to text

• text to world

Text-to-text connections

• Identifying how the main character relates to you

• Comparing two books

• Relating what you read to history or an event