Making Connections

Making connections is a reading strategy that involves text to text, text to self, and text to world. These help you make connections.

Text to self is comparing a character or text to yourself.  An example of text to self is the highway rat steals food from the villagers because he can't go get his own, and I stole my dads food because he stole my food.

Text to text is comparing a text to another text. An example of text to text is when the duck tricked the rat so that she wouldn't get eaten and in the story little red riding hood the wolf pretended to be the grandma so that he could eat little red riding hood.

Text to world is comparing a text or character to someting that happens around the world. An example of text to world is The horse lets the rat ride him because they think they are partners, you can also see dance partners at ballet lessons. 

Making connections are an important way to understand a meaning or a similarity. Connecting texts to other things or people can help you understand similairities.