1. It’s important to connect to the text when you read because it helps you understand and remember what you’re reading by relating it to your own experiences or knowledge.
2. Two connections make a reader more engaged with the text: personal connections (relating to your own life) and world connections (relating to events, places, or people in the world).
3. A text-to-self connection is when you relate something in the text to your own life or personal experiences.
4. A text-to-text connection is when you relate something in the text to another book, story, movie, or article you’ve read or seen.
5. A text-to-world connection is when you relate something in the text to real-world events, issues, places, or people outside of yourself and other texts.
Parent Tip: Review the logic above to help your child master the concept of making connections worksheet.
