This resource helps ELs make strong connections with a simple fiction text.
What is the text to text connections. Explain how readers often make connections to a story to help them better understand the text. Read the text once and then read it again to find ideas that you can use to answer the following questions. When I teach this strategy in my ESL classroom I prompt the connections by asking Does anyone remember another book where children had to share with their friends.
Text-to-text connections can assist readers with determining the type and purpose of text. Using the Making Connections Posters Text-to-Self Connection Text-to-Text Connection and Text-to-World Connection as visual aids introduce the three types of connections. Once they understand then what they read will be.
You will need to. This strategy helps students comprehend text by activating their prior knowledge and making. Text to Text Connections The Pain and the Great One My Rotten Red-Headed Older Brother Readers connect ideas from one book to another.
Next teach text-to-text and lastly text-to-world as this is more difficult for students to connect with. Text to World Connections Someday a Tree Readers use their knowledge of what is happening in the world to understand the big ideas in the text. Gertrude and Toby Save the Gingerbread Man by Shari Tharp The Little Mermaid by Jerry Pinkney Your Mama by N.
To make these types of connections the reader must think about what is going on in the world around them. Text-to-text connections is a technique used in reading to better interpret text. Explain that the purpose of connections is to help them understand comprehend a text more effectively.
Plan out the connections that youd like to model for you students ahead of time. Using Your Text Connections in a Thinking Paragraph worksheet. Use the following prompts to help guide.