1. TEXT CONNECTIONS A good way to extend your ideas in writing

2. What are connections?  Connections are links that you make between what you are reading and your experiences. There are three main types of text connections:  Text-to-Self  Text-to-Text  Text-to-World

3. CONNECTIONS

4. Text-to-Self Connections

5. Text-to-Text Connections

6. Text-to-World Connections

7. How Can You Use Connections?  In your writing, you can use connections to help you to improve your ideas.  Making connections allows us to visualize what has happened in the book.  Making connections allows us to develop a better understanding of the characters’ feelings and attitudes.  Making connections helps us to link the events in the book to reality.

8. Using Connections in Your Writing  When you begin to write about stories, you can use connections in several ways:  You can compare and contrast the events in the book you are reading to another book, yourself, and the world.  You can make intelligent guesses about what motivates the characters, and explain and describe the characters’ choices.  You can visualize the setting and add description to your writing.

9. Today’s Activity  Create a new post that makes three text connections:  Text-to-Self  Text-to-Text  Text-to-World

10. Today’s Activity  Post your connections to the Edmodo site.  Read over everyone else’s post  Respond to at least TWO of your classmates’ posts.  In your response, add your thoughts about what your classmate has posted.  Have you had an experience like this that you can share?  Have you read something or heard something on the news or in history class that sounds similar?