You can use this strategy with any type of text historical or literary and with other media such as film.

What is the text to text connections. Making connections is linking what the students read to what they already know. 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 The Pain and the Great One My Rotten Red-Headed Older Brother Readers connect ideas from one book to another.

This resource helps ELs make strong connections with a simple fiction text. Choose two texts that you know students will be able to easily identify similar topics characters or events. Explain how readers often make connections to a story to help them better understand the text.

This strategy helps students comprehend text by activating their prior knowledge and making. It can be used at the beginning middle or end of the reading process to get students engaged with a text. Text-to-text connections is a technique used in reading to better interpret text.

For example you might read a book about a specific topic and then a fiction poem on the same topic. Text-to-text connections are links that students make between the text that they are reading and another story that they have read. The Text-to-Text Text-to-Self Text-to-World strategy helps students develop the habit of making these connections as they read.

Text-to-Self Connection Text-to-Text Connection and Text-to-World Connection. Use the following prompts to help guide. When students are given a purpose for their reading they are able to better comprehend and make meaning of the ideas in the text.

Text-to-text connections can assist readers with determining the type and purpose of text. Read the text once and then read it again to find ideas that you can use to answer the following questions. Text to text connections strengthen prior knowledge and allow students to identify commonalities across authors and genres.