TEXT CONNECTIONSA good way to extend your ideas in writing

What are connections?

Connections are links that you make between what you are reading and your experiences. There are three main types of text connections: Text-to-Self Text-to-Text Text-to-World

CONNECTIONS

Text-to-Self Connections

Text-to-Text Connections

Text-to-World Connections

How Can You Use Connections? In your writing, you can use connections

to help you to improve your ideas. Making connections allows us to

visualize what has happened in the book.

Making connections allows us to develop a better understanding of the characters’ feelings and attitudes.

Making connections helps us to link the events in the book to reality.

Using Connections in Your Writing When you begin to write about stories,

you can use connections in several ways: You can compare and contrast the events in

the book you are reading to another book, yourself, and the world.

You can make intelligent guesses about what motivates the characters, and explain and describe the characters’ choices.

You can visualize the setting and add description to your writing.

Today’s Activity

Create a new post that makes three text connections: Text-to-Self Text-to-Text Text-to-World

Today’s Activity

Post your connections to the Edmodo site.

Read over everyone else’s post Respond to at least TWO of your

classmates’ posts. In your response, add your thoughts

about what your classmate has posted. Have you had an experience like this that

you can share? Have you read something or heard

something on the news or in history class that sounds similar?