1. Monday Jan. 22,2018 Review Eleanor Roosevelt
Making Text Connections Notes
Guided Notes on Text Connections
Text Connections Practice
Homework: Flashback/Foreshadowing

2. Text-to-Text Text-to-Self Text-to-World Text-to-Media
Making Connections
THIS IS OUR INSIGHT! THIS IS HOW WE EXTEND AND EXPAND OUR ANSWER TO CONNECT TO MEANINGFUL INSIGHT
Text-to-Text Text-to-Self
Text-to-World
Text-to-Media

3. What are Text Connections?
Making connections will allow us to better relate and understand ways in which reading connects to:
your own life and experiences
other forms of literature
society and the world
film, theatre, television, radio and music
Making connections elicit (BRINGS OUT or ENHANCES) thinking skills such as: comparing and contrasting, cause and effect, recalling, inferring, synthesizing, and evaluating.

4. How Will Making Connections Help?
Recognizing connections stimulates our cognitive (knowledge and thoughts) and affective (feelings and emotions) perception. This increased awareness makes reading more relevant and meaningful.
You will become more involved, engaged, and invested in reading and viewing an abundance of different forms of literature.
You will “dive into” what you read, making it your own, and, in doing so, become proficient in the process of reading and comprehending.

5. How Will Making Connections Help?
Activating Prior Knowledge – builds a stronger base of knowledge Cognitive Connections – stimulate our thought processes as we use our reasoning skills Affective Connections – stimulates our emotions by activating past experiences that were sad, happy,etc.

6. Connections Improve Comprehension!

7. 4 Types of Text Connections
Text-to-Self (TS) - in this instance, we make personal connections with events or characters in the text; they remind us of people we know, things we did, places we have been, experiences we have had, etc.
Text-to-Text (TT) - this is when we connect events or characters we are reading about with other texts we have read.
Text-to-World (TW) - This is when we connect events, characters, or concepts in a book with real life events, people, or issues. This includes: social, political, economic, environmental, and cultural issues, as well as race relations and class systems, conflicts, and wars. This is a connection to a historical time period, a historical figure, or an event in history. This can also be a current event that is happening NOW in our WORLD.
Text-to-Media (TM) - this is when we connect events or characters we are reading about with a television show, a movie, a play, a radio show, or music we have viewed or listened to.

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

9. 4 Types of Text Connections