Making Connections

What does it mean to make text-to-text connections?

• to look compare and contrast two authors

• to group books into categories

• to discover what two writings have in common through deeper analysis

• to look for ways two writings are different

The first step to making connections between texts is to examine the authors. When doing so, what characteristics should you examine?

• Age

• Culture

• Gender

• Race

• All the answers are correct

The first type of connections most readers learn is______ connection

• Text-to-self

• Text-to-text

• Text-to-world

• Text-to-others

When a student is reading a book and says, "That makes me think about the president of the Philippines" he is making a _____ connection

• Text-to-text

• Text-to-world

• Text-to-others

• Text-to-self

Linking two or more texts together is called a _____ connection.

• Text-to-self

• Text-to-world

• Text-to-others

• Text-to-text

It is a reader's background knowledge that is used to understand the text.

(CAPITAL LETTERS ONLY)

________ is a critical reading comprehension strategy that helps in defining what you are reading.

(CAPITAL LETTERS ONLY)

Who concluded that students comprehend better when you make different kinds of connections.

• O. Henry

• Alfred Lord Tennyson

• Azevedo

• Keene and Zimmerman

What does this remind me of in my life?

This question is included in_______ connection.

• Text-to-self

• Text-to-world

• Text-to-text

• Text-to-others

How is this text similar to other things I have read?

This question is included in _________ connection.

• Text-to-others

• Text-to-self

• Text-to-world

• Text-to-text