Pre-Assessment for A&E Integration Lesson

What is a Text-to-Text Connection? Mark only one oval.

• A connection between the story and your personal life.

• A connection between the story and something happening in the world.

• A connection between the story and another book, movie, or text.

• A connection between the story and your emotions.

What is a Text-to-World Connection? Mark only one oval.

• A connection between the story and your own life experiences.

• A connection between the story and another book or movie.

• A connection between two characters in the same story.

• A connection between the story and something happening in the real world or society.

What is a Text-to-Self Connection?

• A connection between the story and your own life or personal experiences.

• A connection between the story and another book you’ve read.

• A connection between the story and a world event.

• A connection between two characters in the book.

What does making connections mean when you read a story?

• Skipping parts of the story that are boring.

• Thinking about how the story reminds you of your life, other texts, or the world.

• Only focusing on the main character’s actions

• Reading the same story multiple times

Making connections means thinking about how a story reminds you of your own life, other books, or things happening in the world.

• True

• False

Making connections only means relating a story to another book, not to your own experiences or the real world.

• True

• False

How can making connections to your own life, other books, or the world help you understand a story better?

• It makes the story more confusing.

• It helps you relate to the story.

• It makes the story shorter.

• It helps you find spelling mistakes in the story.

A story can lose some of its meaning if it doesn’t connect to real-world problems or experiences, because readers may find it harder to relate to the message.

• True

• False

Authors include details that help readers make connections to their lives or the world so that the story feels more real and meaningful to the reader.

• True

• False

Why is it important for readers to connect stories to their own lives, other books, or the world around them?

• It helps the reader skip parts of the story.

• It makes the story easier to forget.

• It helps the reader understand the author’s message and relate to the story in a meaningful way.

• It helps the reader focus only on the characters’ names.