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The document discusses making connections as a metacognitive strategy for comprehending what is read. It describes making text-to-self, text-to-world, and text-to-text connections. Students are assigned to find 3 quotes from Chapter 6 of The Kite Runner and make authentic connections to each quote in different categories, including questions. As an example, one student organized their connections assignment by using blue for text-to-world connections, red for questions, purple for text-to-text connections specifying the media, and green for personal text-to-self connections.

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Kite Runner Making Connections - Weebly

The document discusses making connections as a metacognitive strategy for comprehending what is read. It describes making text-to-self, text-to-world, and text-to-text connections. Students are assigned to find 3 quotes from Chapter 6 of The Kite Runner and make authentic connections to each quote in different categories, including questions. As an example, one student organized their connections assignment by using blue for text-to-world connections, red for questions, purple for text-to-text connections specifying the media, and green for personal text-to-self connections.

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Making Connections to

The Kite Runner


English 12
Metacognition: thinking about thinking
(we consciously decide to think about
what our brain is doing)
Metacognitive strategy: a strategy used
Metacognition to develop our metacognition
Making connections: a metacognitive
strategy used to develop our ability to
comprehend what we read, and to train
our brains to make faster connections
We make 3 specific types
of connections as we read
Text to - self
Making Text to world
Connections
Text to text (or media)
These are categories, and many
types of connections may fit more
than one category
Step 1: Find 3 quotes from The Kite
Runner ch. 6 to which you can make
authentic connections
Step 2: Display these quotes on a large
piece of paper
Assignment Step 3: Make connections, using some type
of organization/ categorization (filling the paper)
You should have at least 3 of each type of
connection
You may find that one quote has more
connections than another
Add a question you could ask of each quote
For my connections, I used the
following organization:
Blue: text to world
I called these world connections
Organization Red: questions
Purple: text to text/media
I specified which connection (movie, tv, book)
Green: text to self connections
I called these personal connections

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