1. Connections
Reading Strategy 7.11

2. Making Connections
Making a personal connection to what you’ve read, heard, seen or experienced helps you understand and stay interested in what you are reading. Try to relate what you are reading to your own personal experiences. Are the characters similar to you or people you know? Is the author describing places you’ve been or events you’ve seen?
What things in your book might relate to your personal experiences?
Setting, characters, events, conflicts, etc…

3. Three types of connections:
Text-to-Text
Text-to-Self
Text-to-World

4. Text to Text
Connect something that happened in this book to another book you read.
Focusing on text-to-text connections:
What does this remind you of in another book you have read?
How is this text similar to other things you have read?
How is this text different from other things you have read?
What lessons from that book apply to this one as well?
NOW….Make a text to text connection using your PCR book

5. Text to Self Now…Make a text to self connection using your PCR book
Connect something that happened in my book to something in my life.
Focusing on text-to-self connections:
What does this story remind you of?
Can you relate to the characters in the story?
Does anything in this story remind you of anything in your own life?
Now…Make a text to self connection using your PCR book

6. Text to World
Connect an event in the book to something that is going on in the world.
Focusing on text-to-world connections:
What does this remind you of in the real world?
How are events in this story similar to things that happen in the real world?
How are events in this story different from things that happen in the real world?
Now…Make a text to world connection using your PCR book

7. Connections should not start with “This reminds me of” rather “I can connect this”