Making Connections.pptx presentation for grade 9
- 1. Making Connections Text-to-Text, Text-to-Self and Text-to-World
- 2. Making connections is a critical reading comprehension strategy that helps students make meaning of what they are reading. When students make connections to the texts that they are reading, it helps them to make sense of what they read, retain the information better, and engage more with the text itself. Students can make connections between the text and another text; the text and themselves and the text and the world around them.
- 3. A. Text-to-Text Connections • These connections are made when a student can connect what they are reading to other books that they have read or songs they have listened to before. • They may make connections that show how the books share the same author, have similar characters, events, or settings, are of the same genre, or are on the same topic. A solid text- to-text connection occurs when students can apply what they‘ve read from one text to another text.
- 4. You may use the following prompts as your guide in making text-to text connections: • What does this remind me of in another book I‘ve read? • How is this text similar to other things I‘ve read? • How is this different from other books I‘ve read? • Have I read about something like this before?
- 5. Here are the sample introductory lines in stating text to text connections: 1. This part of the book is like… 2. The pictures make me think of… 3. The cover reminds me of… 4. I have read another book…
- 6. Why Make Text-to-Text Connections? ❖To be better readers and writers. Developing these skills will help you in not just your English classes but your other classes as well. ❖To develop writing skills that can be used in the workforce. These reading and writing skills can continue to grow and be challenged by making connections between texts.
- 7. ❖To help with your comprehension. You will have to not just read the material but evaluate it. This will help you become familiar with the writing and discuss its importance more clearly. ❖To lead you to a more critical thinking and analysis. When you read a story to connect it to another, you will have to ask yourself questions and find these answers. You will have to learn more about the literary elements of the story and how to discuss them correctly.
- 8. B. TEXT-TO-SELF CONNECTION ❖It is a highly personal connection that a reader makes between a piece of reading material and the reader‘s own experiences or life. ❖It is an active reading strategy which is used to promote critical reading skills. ❖It involves previewing texts and making connections in order to construct meaning. ❖It focuses on the students‘ prior knowledge and experiences.
- 9. Focusing on text-to-self connections, here are some examples of good questions that enhance understanding: ❖What does the story remind you of? ❖Can you relate with the characters in the story? ❖Do you relate to a certain event in the story? ❖Does anything on this story remind you of anything in your own life? ❖ How did you use your senses to recall experiences? ❖What are your feelings when you read the text? ❖Have you changed your thinking after reading the text? ❖What have you learned?
- 10. Why Make Text-to-Self Connection? ❖Helps you deepen your learning by appreciating the ways in which knowledge is interrelated and multifaceted. ❖ Increases your ability to retain and retrieve information. ❖Helps you engage emotionally with the text. ❖Creates a clearer picture in your head of the text read. ❖Enhances conception of story details and understanding of character motives. ❖Forces you to become active readers. ❖Keeps you focused.
- 11. Here are the sample introductory lines in stating text to Self connections: 1. This reminds me of… 2. I understand how the character feels because… 3. The setting makes me think about another place… 4. I experience this myself…