Making Connections

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Making Connections

• By Cheryl Jones

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Making Connections

• Text-to-Self
• Text-to-Text
• Text-to-World

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Making Connections

• Connections are a reading strategy that access
  ones prior knowledge.
• When students have had an experience similar to
  that of a character in a story, they are more
  likely to understand the characters motives,
  thoughts, and feelings.

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Text-to-Self

• A text-to-self connection are connections that
  readers make between the text and their past
  experiences or background knowledge.

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Text-to-Self
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Text-to-Self

• Christmas Tapestry
• By Patricia Polacco
• In this story Jonathan Jefferson Weeks is from
  Tennessee.

• I have been to the state of Tennessee several
  times and my daughters grandmother still lives
  there.

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Text-to-Self

• Christmas Tapestry by Patricia Polacco
• In the story Jonathan has to move to Detroit,
  Michigan and he is not happy because he does not
  want to leave his school or his friends.

• I had to move when I was a kid and I didnt want
  to leave my school and friends either.

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Text-to-Text

• A text-to-text connection are connections that
  readers make between the text they are reading
  and another text, including books, poems,
  scripts, songs, or anything that is written.

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• Text-to-Text

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Text-to-Text

• Christmas Tapestry by Patricia Polacco
• In this story Jonathan was a PK, a preachers
  kid.

• In the book Because of Winn Dixie by Kate
  Dicamillo, The girl in the story, Opal, is a
  preachers kid also.

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Text-to-Text

• Christmas Tapestry by Patricia Polacco
• In this story, the tapestry that Jonathan and his
  father find is beautiful and has been handed down
  from one generation to the next.

• In the book The Keeping Quilt by Patricia
  Polacco, Gramma Anna has a beautiful quilt that
  has been passed from generation to generation in
  her family.

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Text-to-World

• A text-to-world connection are connections that
  readers make between the text and the bigger
  issues, events, or concerns of society and the
  world at large.

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• Text-to-World

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Text-to-World

• Christmas Tapestry by Patricia Polacco
• In this story, the old lady, that Jonathan and
  his father met, told them the Nazis took her
  husband.

• Today in history we learn all about the Nazis and
  what they did in the past.

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Text-to-World

• A couple of years ago we had a blizzard in
  Indiana.

• Christmas Tapestry by Patricia Polacco
• In the story Jonathans family hears that a
  blizzard is headed their way.

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Indiana Academic Standards

• 3.2.2 Ask questions and support answers by
  connecting prior knowledge with literal
  information from the text.
• 3.2.3 Show understanding by identifying answers
  in the text.
• 3.2.4 Recall major points in the text and make
  and revise predictions about what is read.