ENGLISH REVIEWER (SECOND
QUARTER)
>MAKING CONNECTIONS
- is a critical reading comprehension
strategy that helps students make
meaning of what they are reading
>TEXT-TO-TEXT CONNECTIONS
-are made when a student can
connect what they are reading to
other books they have read or songs
they have listened to before
>LAYERS OF THE TEXT
• LAYER ONE – fact-based
knowledge, comprehension level
question (who, what, where, when
questions)
• LAYER TWO – requires analysis,
synthesis and evaluation questions
-The reader has to put together
information from different parts of
the text to answer
• LAYER THREE – requires you to
apply knowledge gained from the
text to new situations
-The reader has to put together
information from the text and
information from his own thinking to
answer the question
>TEXT-TO-SELF CONNECTIONS
- it is highly personal connection that
the reader makes between a piece of
reading material and the reader’s
own experience or life.
- it is an active reading strategy which
is used to promote critical reading skills
- it involve previewing texts and making
connections in order to construct
meaning
- it focuses on the student’s prior
knowledge and experiences
GOOD QUESTIONS THAT ENHANCES
UNDERSTANDING OF TEXT-TO-SELF
1. What does the story remind you of?
2. Can you relate with the characters in
the story?
3. Do you relate to a certain event in
the story?
4. Does anything on the story remind
you of anything in your own life?
5. How did you use your senses to
recall experience?
WHY MAKE TEXT-TO-TEXT
CONNECTIONS?
• Helps you deepen your learning by
appreciating the ways in which
knowledge is interrelated and
multifaceted
• Increase your ability to retain and
retrieve information
• Helps you engage emotionally with the Example:
text
A new technology disrupts the industry,
creating uncertainty about the future
market leaders and forcing companies
VOLATILE WORLD to reevaluate their strategies.
-sudden change, unexpectedly, getting
worse
Complex (clarity) – problems with a lot
of parts that are all connected
V - Volatile
U - Uncertain The more complex the world is, the
C - Complex harder it is to analyze
A – Ambiguous
• Tasks correlation
• Multifaceted effects
Volatile (vision) –speed of change in • Influencers
the world, change is violent and
uncontrollable
Example:
The more volatile the world is, the more
and faster things change Launching a product in a global market
where cultural differences, varying
• Change nature regulations, and intricate supply chain
• Change dynamics networks add complexity to the
• Change rate & speed
planning and execution.
Example:

A sudden economic downturn causing

Ambiguous (agility) - haziness of
unexpected market fluctuations,
reality, the potential for misreads, and
impacting businesses and investments.
the mixed meanings of conditions;
cause-and-effect confusion

Uncertain (understanding) – cannot • Ideal vs actual

• Misinterpretation
confidently predict the future, making it
hard to prepare for
Examples:
The more uncertain the world is, the
harder it is to predict A rapidly evolving political landscape
creates uncertainty about future
• Unpredictability
policies, making it unclear how they
• Potential surprises
• Unknown outcomes might affect industries, businesses, and
international relations.