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Making Connections: Text-to-Text and Text-to-Self

Making connections between texts helps students engage more with reading and better understand and retain information. There are two main types of connections: text-to-text, where students connect a text to other texts they have read with similar themes, topics, or genres, and text-to-self, where students relate their own lives and experiences to the text. Making connections requires students to think critically about texts and relate them to their other reading and knowledge in order to construct meaning.

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Making Connections: Text-to-Text and Text-to-Self

Making connections between texts helps students engage more with reading and better understand and retain information. There are two main types of connections: text-to-text, where students connect a text to other texts they have read with similar themes, topics, or genres, and text-to-self, where students relate their own lives and experiences to the text. Making connections requires students to think critically about texts and relate them to their other reading and knowledge in order to construct meaning.

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Making

Connections:
Text-to-Text and
Text-to-Self
It is a critical reading comprehension
strategy that helps students make
Making meaning of what they are reading. When
students make connections to the texts
connections that they are reading, it helps them to
make sense of what they read, retain the
information better, and engage more with
the text itself. Students can make
connections between the text and another
text; the text and themselves and the text and
the world around them.
A. Text-to-Text

Connections
A. Text-to-Text Connections
These connections They may make A solid text-to-
are made when a connections that text connection
student can connect show how the books occurs when
what they are share the same students can
reading to other author, have similar apply what
books that they characters, events, or they‘ve read
have read or songs settings, are of the from one text
they have listened same genre, or are on to another text.
to before. the same topic.
Guide questions in making
text-to-text connections:
 What does this remind me of in another book I‘ve
read?
 How is this text similar to other things I‘ve read?
 How is this different from other books I‘ve read?
 Have I read about something like this before?
Sample introductory lines in
stating text-to-text connections:

 This part of the book is like…


 The pictures make me think of…
 The cover reminds me of…
 I have read another book…
Why make
text-to-text
connections?
 To develop writing skills
that can be used in the
 To be better readers and
workforce. These reading
writers. Developing
and writing skills can
these skills will help you
continue to grow and be
in not just your English
challenged by making
classes but your other
connections between texts.
classes as well.
 To lead you to a more critical
thinking and analysis. When
 To help with your
you read a story to connect it to
comprehension. You will
another, you will have to ask
have to not just read the yourself questions and find
material but evaluate it. these answers. You will have to
This will help you learn more about the literary
become familiar with the elements of the story and how
writing and discuss its to discuss them correctly.
importance more clearly.
B. Text-to-Self
Connection
A. Text-to-Self Connections
It is a highly personal It is an active reading It involves
connection that a strategy which is previewing
reader makes used to promote texts and
between a piece of critical reading skills. making
reading material and It focuses on the connections in
the reader‘s own students‘ prior order to
experiences or life. knowledge and construct
experiences. meaning.
Guide questions in making
text-to-self connections:
 What does the story remind you of?
 Can you relate with the characters in the story?
 Do you relate to a certain event in the story?
 Does anything on this story remind you of anything in your own life?
 How did you use your senses to recall experiences?
 What are your feelings when you read the text?
 Have you changed your thinking after reading the text?
 What have you learned?
Sample introductory lines in
stating text-to-self connections:
 This reminds me of…
 I understand how the character feels because…
 The setting makes me think about another
place…
 I experience this myself…
Why make
text-to-self
connections?
 Helps you deepen your learning by appreciating the
ways in which knowledge is interrelated and
multifaceted.
 Increases your ability to retain and retrieve information.
 Helps you engage emotionally with the text.
 Creates a clearer picture in your head of the text read.
 Enhances conception of story details and understanding of
character motives.
 Forces you to become active readers.
 Keeps you focused.
How to make
insightful 1. Don’t settle for shallow
connections? judgment.
2. Feel the “layers” of the
text.
It includes fact-based, knowledge,
Layer comprehension level questions (Who,
What, When, Where questions).
One
This requires you to recall information
given in the text and answers are found
in the text or other available sources.
It requires analysis, synthesis, and
evaluation questions.
Layer
Two The reader has to put together
information from different parts of
the text to answer questions.

You can‘t find the answers by


recalling one specific passage.
It requires you to apply knowledge gained from
the text to new situations.
Layer
Three The reader has to put together information from
the text and information from his own thinking
to answer the questions.

“Why,” “How,” and “What do you think”


questions lead to discussions of other issues and
concepts related to the text.
END OF
LESSON

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