Making Connections Text to Self Text to Media

Making Connections Text to Self Text to Media Text to World Be a strategic reader!!!

What are Connections? Connections are links that readers can make between what they are reading and what they may already know about. Good readers make connections to better understand what they are reading.

Making Connections Text-to-Text (T-T) Text-to-Self (T-S) Text-to-World (T-W) Text-to-Media (T-M)

Text to Text What connections can you make with a book, article, picture or movie that you have read or seen? Is the information similar or different from what you would expect? How does this connection help you understand the new material you are reading?

Example: https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=NUm_Xg 8 Zu. Po A literary connection can be made between “Priscilla and the Wimps”, and the novel Freak the Mighty, by Rodman Philbrick. Both texts portray the same theme that people who are different can still become friends. In the novel, for example Priscilla and Melvin, and Kevin and Max….

Text to World You may have read it or heard about it in a class, at home, in a newspaper on television, or on the Internet.

Example: Through theme that bullying is wrong and those who bully eventually learn from their mistakes, “Priscilla and the Wimps” can also connect to the real world experiences and consequences of bullying for many teenagers. In our society, bullying is very common especially among young people. Like Monk, bullies….

Text-to-Media Film, television, theatre and music provide visual and auditory enhancement of many forms of literature. As we read we will find that we can make connections to a plethora (several or many) of movies or plays we have seen.

Example: https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Olm 0 KUts. FE 8 A reader can connect the short story “Priscilla and the Wimps” to the 1993 film Dazed and Confused. Like Priscilla and the students of the school, a freshman named Mitch, the main character of the film, and his peers are tormented and hazed by a gang of senior bullies. Eventually, Mitch and his peers stand up to the bullies once and for all. This connects to theme that standing up for what is right can and will pay off in the long run as shown by both the short story and the film.

Ways to Start your Connections … “That reminds readers of … “ “Remember when … “ “This is like … “ “This character makes one think of …” “This setting reminds the audience of … “