This is all about connections within an informational text.

How to teach text to text connections. Text to Text Connections This week we read The Missing Mitten Mystery and compared it to The Mitten which we read last week. Focus on events and ideas that reoccur across the text rather than minor details such as individual words that are useful only on that one page Miller 2002. Circulate the room and offer assistance as needed.

Text-to-text connections are the second type of connection that most teachers choose to teach. Perfect for reading comprehension strategies instruction. For example you might read a book about a specific topic and then a fiction poem on the same topic.

According to Into the Book 2015 good readers make connections as they read. Choose two texts that you know students will be able to easily identify similar topics characters or events. Falker by Patricia Polacco.

I like to use mentor texts to give my students a LOT of practice in order to help my students master understanding each type of connection as well as help them provide a list of things that might help spark connections such as movies books current events and problems in our local area or. The picture books listed below are diverse enough for most students to make all three types of connections. Reading picture books in a group setting is an engaging way to approach this type of guided instruction.

Remind students to refer to their text connections in Part 1 to complete the reading response paragraph frame. Text to text connections strengthen prior knowledge and allow students to identify commonalities across authors and genres. Reading comes alive when we recognize how the ideas in a text connect to our experiences and beliefs events happening in the larger world our understanding of history and our knowledge of other texts.

Includes individual organizers for text to self text to text and text to world connections. Plan out the connections that youd like to model for you students ahead of time. Here is a picture of our Venn diagram we used for comparing.