Reading Passages with Making Connections to Personal Experiences

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

A connection we make between a text and current events is called...

• Text to Self

• Text to Text

• Text to World

• Text to Media

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

• True

• False

What type of connection is this: I read a story about a woman who was afraid of black cats and it made me think about how people do not adopt black cats from animal shelters all over the world because they believe they are bad luck.

• Text to Text

• Text to Self

• Text to World

• Text to Media

Connecting something I have read to something else I have read is what type of connection?

• Text to Self

• Text to World

• Text to Text

• Text to Media

If I compare two characters from different stories, what kind of a text connection am I making?

• text-to-world

• text-to-text

• text-to-self

What type of connection is this: I read a book about a girl who worked in a factory in New York. It reminded me of an article that I read in school about child labor laws.

• text to self

• text to text

• text to world

A connection between the book and your life experiences.

• text-to-text

• text-to-self

• text-to-world

• text-to-media

I read a 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 story about a boy who loved to eat cheese for breakfast. It reminded me of the time we ran out of cereal and my mom made me a cheese sandwich for breakfast.

• text to world

• text to self

• text to text