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TEXT CONNECTIONSA good way to extend your ideas in writing
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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
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CONNECTIONS
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Text-to-Self Connections
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Text-to-Text Connections
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Text-to-World Connections
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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.
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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.
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Today’s Activity
Create a new post that makes three text connections: Text-to-Self Text-to-Text Text-to-World
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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?