MAKING CONNECTIONS

'What is Making Connections?

Making Connections is when students make links or associations between what they read and their prior knowledge.

There are THREE types of connections students can make when they read...

1. Text to self connection: A text to self connection is when a student relates what they read to their own personal experience. An example of this is when a student reads a book about a family moving house and relates the experience to their own experience of moving home. This helps make the story more meaningful.

2. Text to text connection: A text to text connection is when a student relates what they read to other texts. An example of this is when a student reads a book about a boy who is always playing tricks on people, and mabe a connection to a similar character in another book.

3. Text to world connection: A text to world connection is when a student relates what they read to the wider world. Texts could be in a book form or a visual text such as a television documentary or a movie. An example of this might be if a student saw the movie Whale Rider, in which whales become stranded on a beach, and made a connection to that happening in real life.'

Sheena Cameron