Make Connections

Between Texts to
Particular Social Issues,
Concerns, or
Dispositions in Real Life
 Making connections
olinking what you read to your previous
experiences, knowledge, emotions, and
understandings
omaking sense of what you read from
what you already know
 Why develop the skill in making
connections?
oGood readers make connections to
everything – from the books they read to
the communities they live in.
oStudents have to be able to draw on what
they already know to make sense of what
they read.
 Kinds of connections
oText-to-self- connections readers make between a
piece of reading material and their own experiences
or life.
oText-to- text-connections readers make to another
story or book (even a movie or a song).
oText-to-world- connections readers make to the world
around them.
 Questions to find connections
oText-to-self
What does this remind me of in my life?
What is this similar to in my life?
How is this different from my life?
Has something like this ever happened to me?
What were my feelings when I read this?
oText-to-text
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?
oText-to-world
What does this remind me of in the real
world?
How is this text similar to things that happen
in the real world?
How is this different from things that happen
in the real world?
oText-to-world
What does this remind me of in the real
world?
How is this text similar to things that happen
in the real world?
How is this different from things that happen
in the real world?
What refrain us from
reading?
TECHNOLOGY
 Martin Luther King
Early Life
Born as Michael King Jr. on January 15,
1929, Martin Luther King Jr. was the
middle child of Michael King Sr. and
Alberta Williams King. 
 Martin Luther King
Baptist minister and social activist
who led the civil rights
movement in the United
States from the mid-1950s until his
death by assassination in 1968.
 Martin Luther King
His leadership was fundamental
to that movement’s success in
ending the legal segregation of
Americans in the South and
other parts of the United States. 
What are your
dreams?
'I Have A Dream'
by Martin Luther
King
Catch Martin Luther’s dream in the
graphic organizer. Highlight his most
important dreams about change,
liberation and social justice.
Catch Martin Luther’s dream in the
graphic organizer. Highlight his most
important dreams about change,
liberation and social justice.