Good readers make connections while reading.
Kinds of Connections
1. Text to self: to own experiences and memories
2. Text to world: to facts and information about history, current events, the world
3. Text to text: to other stories, songs, TV shows, movies, etc.
Reasons to Make Connections
Making connections helps readers:
- Visualize.
- Listen to others to see how they are connecting to the text, thus enrichingeveryone’s understanding of the material.
- Read more actively—with a purpose—which reduces boredom and increasesattention.
- Remember what they read since it has become personalized.
- Ask questions.
- Relate to characters by understanding their feelings and motivations.
What You Can Do
- Create a Venn diagram to show how subject areas overlap and how they differ, or to bridge information between textbook chapters or linked novels.
- Look at the topic of study. Write the facts you know about the subject.
- Model your thinking by sharing the connections you make while reading.
- Identify similarities between subjects you study.Example Connecting Statements
- This part reminds me of....- I felt like...(character) when I....
- If that happened to me I would....
- This book reminds me of...(another text) because....
- I can relate to...(part of text) because one time....
- Something similar happened to me when....
Chapter 2 Assignment
While you are reading chapter 2 (pages 17-37), think about the connections you make to the text. Remember, connections can be text to self, text to world, and/or text to text.
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Connections:
"...those Western magazines ranch men love to read and scoff at and secretly believe."
this quote reminded me of my dad. he subscribed to men's health a few months ago and now he's doing all these weird "health" things and taking all these strange supplements just because the magazine says so. the other day he brought home a two gallon container of whey protein. a few months ago he would have just laughed if mom or i had suggested he drink whey protein shakes.
i thought it was Curley's bad case of short guy syndrome was funny. it reminded me of a kid from my preschool class. when we were little he used to be really tall but from about first grade on he was the shortest because everyone else grew but he didn't. after that he got kind of sour.
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