Making Text Connections : Reading Strategies

Good readers make connections using what they already know to connect the following:

• connect a text to their life, another text or the world

• connect to their life and their friends life 

Which allows readers to connect to their life experiences?

• text to world

• text to self

• text to text

When you read a book and a problem reminds you something that happened at your school last year is an example of:

• text to text

• text to real world

• text to self

When you read a book and you are reminded of another book or movie it is an example of

• text to text

• text to self

• text to world

This short film was about....

• Make Predictions

• Making Connections

• Visualizing