They can relate the book to their personal experiences text-to-self to information from other texts text-to-text or from what they know about the world text-to-world.

How to make text to world connections. For example the book Where Does Garbage Go. According to Into the Book 2015 good readers make connections as they read. A lot of the kiddos were linking the story further afield.

I love these free posters from Megan at Teaching Super Power. Text to text connections strengthen prior knowledge and allow students to identify commonalities across authors and genres. They have an easier time remembering the story when they feel a personal connection.

Direct modeling of the active thought process is the first step in teaching the text connection strategy. Essentially were making comparisons between the text and us between the text and another text or between the text and some event in the world around us. Later kids begin to make connections between books theyve read.

Students who make connections while reading are better able to understand the text they are reading. Making text-to-text connections begins when you examine what the two writings have in common. Use the following prompts to help guide students in text-to-world connections.

Text-to-world connections are the larger connections that a reader brings to a reading situation. It is best to introduce and practice one type of connection at a time and then build upon each other. How do the ideas in this text remind you of another text story book movie song etc.

Choose books that have characters or are about topics that will easily lend itself to text-to-world connections. Eventually theyll be making connections to the world. Earlier in the week we read and watched The Lorax by Dr Seuss and made some great TtS Connections.