Making Connections
Great Readers Make Connections!
We make personal connections with the text by using our schema (our background knowledge). There are three main types of connections we make while reading text:
Text-to-Self (T-S) -- connections made between the text and the reader's personal experience, feelings, or life.
Text-to-Self (T-S) -- connections made between the text and the reader's personal experience, feelings, or life.
- I can relate to this book because...
- The text says... which reminds me of...
- The same thing happened to me and...
- I know how the character feels because...
- That made me think of the time...
- This story reminds me of...
Text-to-Text (T-T) -- connections made between a text being read to a text that was previously read. - The character in this book is similar to the character in...
- I read another book where...
- These two stories are alike because...
- This part is just like...
- This setting is the same as...
- This is similar to...
Text-to-World (T-W) -- connections made between a text being read and something that occurs in the world. - This happened in real life...
- This event was like the real event...
- I think this happened in history before...
- This reminds me of something I heard on the news...