Making Connections

Making Connections is looking at a text and finding similarites. 

There are three types of connections and they are text to self, text to text, and text to world. 

Text to self is connection about yourself, friends, or family. For example: The duck returned the food to the villagers. Opinion: The duck did the right thing as it was their food. My connection was my younger cousin took my older cousin’s   cupcake and I gave back my older cousin’s cupcake. 

These connect because they both are examples of people having things taken from them and returned by someone else.

Text to text is a connection about a story with the same fact and opinion. For example:The duck tells the rat that she has a sister. Opinion: The duck was trying not to get eaten. My connection was : Cinderella tricks the Prince into thinking she is a princess. She does this because she wants to get away from her step mother. These connect because they are trying to get in to a better situation.

Text to world is a connection about people. For example:The duck gave water to the horse.The duck could see the horse was tired and struggling. My connection was People in the world give food and water to those in need.These connect because someone is tired and someone else is giving  them water. 

Making connections are important because its a good reading strategy.