How to Make a Connection

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How to Make a Connection

• In Reading Open Response

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The Highest form of comprehension
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Your Brain and How It works
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Spider Web interconnected strands
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Your Brain works the same way
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More connections more plugs
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As we make more connections
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At birth 7 years
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Showing you can make a connection shows just how
smart you are!
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Something new..

• This shows that_________
• BECAUSE______, JUST LIKE_____.

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Reading ThinkingListen to your brain!
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metacognition

• Listen to your brain as you read.
• Your brain will be trying to make connections.
• Your brain will be linking your prior knowledge
  (things you already know) to the new information
  (things you read) in order to understand it
  better.
• The new information will plug into the
  information that is already there to form a
  connection.

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This shows a high level of understanding.

• And gets you a 4on
• Open Response!

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Text to- self connections
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Link the text to yourself

• Good readers always think as they read. 
• Sometimes, the story or text reminds the reader
  of something that happened to them. 
• That reminds me of when I went to Florida and
  saw a shark.
• The reader just made a connection with the
  story. 
• We call this a text-to-self connection.
• To YOU

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Text - to - self connection
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Text to Text connections
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Link the text to another text

• Good readers always think when they read.
• Sometimes a text will remind the reader of
  another text they have read.
• That reminds me of a book I once read because
• The reader just made a connection with a prior
  text.
• This is called a text-to-text connection.
• To

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Text to world connections
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Text to- world

• Good readers always think as they read. 
• Sometimes, the story or text reminds the reader
  of something else. 
• That reminds me of the way people on Wheel of
  Fortune want to spin the wheel for more money..
• The reader just made a connection to something in
  the world.
• We call this a text-to-world connection.
• To
  

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Text to - world

• Internet
• TV
• History
• Movies
• Life experiences

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Lets practice!

• Question Explain why Rudolph was asked to lead
  the sleigh on Christmas Eve.

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M make a statement

• Rudolph was asked to lead the sleigh on Christmas
  Eve because..

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A Answer the Question

• his bright red nose would help guide the way on
  a foggy night.

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C , Comma quote

• In the story Santa says, Rudolph with your nose
  so bright, wont you guide my sleigh tonight?

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C connection

• This shows that Rudolph would be a good choice to
  lead the sleigh BECAUSE.

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C connectiontext to - self

• because his nose would light up the foggy night
  just like my flashlight at home lights up my room
  when the lights go out.

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C connectiontext to - text

• .because his nose would light up the foggy night
  just like the night light lit up the dark room in
  the book, Elis Night Light.

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C- connectiontext to - world

• because his nose would light up the foggy night
  just like the headlights of a car do.

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Lets try again!

• Question Explain why the children on Bobtail
  Ring were having fun.

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M make a statement

• The children on Bobtail Ring are having fun
  because.

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A Answer the Question

• They are riding through the snow in a sleigh.

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C , Comma quote

• In the story the author said, Dashing through
  the snow in a one horse open sleigh, over the
  fields we go laughing all the way.

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C connection

• This shows that the kids are having a great time
  BECAUSE.

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C connectiontext to - self

• Because they are playing out in the snow in the
  sleigh just like I have the most fun ever when I
  get to go sled riding in the winter.

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C connectiontext to - text

• Because they are playing out in the snow in the
  sleigh just like the children who had so much fun
  in the book, On a Wintry Morning.

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C- connectiontext to - world

• Because they are playing out in the snow riding
  in the sleigh just like they do in the movie,
  Santa Claus.

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Name that connection

• Question Explain why stars in the sky are
  compared to diamonds.

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M make a statement

• Stars in the sky are compared to diamonds because

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A Answer the question

• They both twinkle and shine.

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C - , Comma Quote

• In the text the author said, Twinkle, twinkle
  little star..like a diamond in the sky.

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C - Connection

• This shows that stars are like diamonds BECAUSE.

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• Because they both sparkle and shine brightly,
  just like the city lights twinkle and shine in
  the book, Bright Lights, Big City.

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Text to - text

• Because they both sparkle and shine brightly,
  just like the city lights twinkle and shine in
  the book, Bright Lights, Big City.

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???????

• Because they both sparkle and shine brightly in
  the sky, just like we now know through science
  that some stars really do have diamonds that can
  be found in the material that surrounds them.

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Text to - world

• Because they both sparkle and shine brightly in
  the sky, just like we now know through science
  that some stars really do have diamonds that can
  be found in the material that surrounds them.

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• Because they both sparkle and shine brightly,
  just like my lights shine against my dark green
  Christmas tree.

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Text to - self

• Because they both sparkle and shine brightly,
  just like my lights shine against my dark green
  Christmas tree.

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You try!!

• Question Explain why the spider got to climb up
  the spout again.

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M Make a statement

• Take off Explain why and add because
• The spider got to climb up the spout again
  because..

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A Answer the question

• The rain had knocked him down, but it quit
  raining.

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C - , Comma quote

• In the story the author said, The sun came out
  and dried up all the rain, so the Itsy Bitsy
  Spider climbed up the spout again.

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Now you try!

• Make a connection that is either
• Text to Self
• Text to Text
• Text to - World

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• Connect to the Text and Score a Four!!