The most challenging connection to teach is text-to-world connections.
Text to world connections books examples. The world can be anything from life inside your dorm room to life in another country. Would be an easy book for students to connect to a world issue. In this lesson students will make text-to-self text-to-text and text-to-world connections after reading In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson.
These are harder connections for first graders to make but its a good idea to at least. A little girl koala feels neglected and unloved by her mom who is busy with younger siblings. Sentence examples similar to text to world connection from inspiring English sources.
Visit Picture Books for Making Connections and Comparisons to find specific examples of Text to Self Text to Text and Text to World book companions. Make a text to world connection. This is a text to world connection because we are taking something from a format of text in this case a book and connecting it to real world events or issues.
You can discuss the importance of earth conservation discuss concerns such water pollutionetc. Text to world connections increase comprehension by relating previously learned concepts to new information. The picture books listed below are diverse enough for most students to make all three types of connections.
One day the beasts of the desert had a party. Students make text-to-world connections when they relate something that they read in a book to a bigger issue that is going on in the world such as poverty or racism. Generate connections to text based on personal experience andor outside knowledge text to self HOT-ness.
Anchor posters and story starters for each of the three connection types. How is a book be different for everyone who reads it. Scarlets Tale by Audrey Vernick What Are Your Words.