9/8 Making Connections Review

Making Connections Review

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Today, we are going to review strategies for making connections to informational texts!

• Text-to-Self

• Text-to-Text

• Text-to-World

Text-to-Self

When you use the "text-to-self" strategy, you use your own experiences to make a connection to the text. 

Text-to-Self: Ask Yourself...

• Have I felt something like this before?

• Have I done something like this before?

• Has something like this happened to me?

• How is this similar or different from my life / feelings?

Multiple Choice

The _______ strategy involves comparing your own feelings and experiences to the text.

• Text-to-self

• Text-to-text

• Text-to-world

Text-to-Text

When you use the "text-to-text" strategy, you use knowledge you've gained from reading to make a connection to the text. 

Text-to-Text: Ask Yourself...

• Have I read something like this before?

• How is this similar to or different from things I have read?

Text-to-World

When you use the "text-to-world" strategy, you use knowledge you've gained from observing the experiences of others. 

Text-to-World: Ask Yourself...

• Have I seen something like this before?

• How is this similar to or different from things I have seen in real life?

• How is this similar to or different from things I have seen in movies / tv shows?

• How is this similar to or different from things I have seen online?

Multiple Choice

The _______ strategy involves comparing what you read to the experiences of others, such as things you've seen in real life, movies, and online.

• Text-to-self

• Text-to-text

• Text-to-world

Read the following scenarios. Choose which strategy has been used to make the connection!

Multiple Choice

I can make a connection to the text I just read because I remember seeing a movie about a snake charmer.

• Text-to-self

• Text-to-text

• Text-to-world

Multiple Choice

I can make a connection to the text I just read because I also visited the planetarium when I was in kindergarten.

• Text-to-self

• Text-to-text

• Text-to-world

Multiple Choice

I can make a connection to the text I just read because it has the opposite point of view as another article I read.

• Text-to-self

• Text-to-text

• Text-to-world

Tag...

Return to nearpod. On the next slide, sign in to readworks.org using your IDYL Google account. Read the assigned passage, and use one of the strategies to make a connection to the text. 

*You will submit your connection and the strategy you used!*

Click the "x" in the upper right corner to return to nearpod.