Making Connections to Personal Experiences

To relate what you are reading to your own personal experience or background knowledge.

• evaluating details

• make connections

• monitor comprehension

• visualize

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 between the book and your life experiences.

• text-to-text

• text-to-self

• text-to-world

• text-to-media

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

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

• True

• False

Making connections means...

• Placing the events, ideas, or details of a text in order from beginning to end.

• Briefly stating the main points and key details of a work IN YOUR OWN WORDS..

• readers relate what they read to personal experiences (text-to-self), to information from other texts (text-to-text), and to information about the world (text-to-world

• form a mental image of something; imagine

Background knowledge is...

• A statement of ideas or information that a passage of text will discuss

• Reader's knowledge about the topic from your own experience - needed to make connections

• A section of text

• form a mental image of something; imagine

The more the readers relate to what they read, the more the information is retained.

• TRUE

• FALSE

A connection between the book and your life experiences.

• text-to-text

• text-to-world

• text-to-self

Which of the following is an example of a text-to-self connection?

• A) Comparing a book to another book

• B) Relating a story to a personal experience

• C) Connecting a story to a historical event

• D) Linking a book to a movie