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Making Connections between Texts to Particular Issues, or Connections or

Dispositions in Real Life

- Songs as part of literature is one of the best ways to explore and address social
issues in human culture.

- writer’s motivation in writing one could be his personal experiences, experiences

of other people or mirror of what is happening in our society.

- They use their pen to become an eye opener and move the larger society in
general.

Making connections is a critical reading comprehension strategy that helps make a

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.

You can make connections between:

- The text and themselves

- The text and another text
- The text and the world around them

TEXT-TO-SELF CONNECTIONS

- Connections where students connect what they are reading to personal

experiences or knowledge.
- Students with wide range experiences will often be able to make more
insightful and complex connections.
- Students with limited experiences may struggle to make connections or
create vague, general connections.
 Example of Text to Self: “This story reminds me of a vacation that I look to
the ocean, just like the main character.

TEXT-TO-TEXT CONNECTIONS
- Made when a student can connect what they are reading to other books that
they have read or listened before.
- They may make connections that show how the books share the same author,
have a similar characters, events or settings, are the same genre, or are on
the same topic.
- A solid text-to-text connection occurs when a student is able to apply what
they’ve read from one text to another text.

Example of Text to Text: “I read another book about spiders that explained that
spiders have venom and in this book, I am learning about the top 10 dangerous
spiders of the world.”

TEXT-TO-WORLD CONNECTIONS

- connections where students connect what they are reading to real events
(past of present), social issues, other people, and happenings going in the
real world from what they watch and hear on TV and movies and from what
they read on magazines and newspaper.
- Effective texts to world connections happen when students can use what
they have learned through these mediums to enhance their understanding of
the text that they are reading.

Example of text to World: “I saw on the news about how water pollution was
affecting marine animals, and in this book I am learning about why pollution can
make a marine animal sick.”