Blog for Making Book Connections

     Making Connections

        Making connections is when we make links

        between what we already know (our prior knowledge) and

              the text.

      These are the three kinds of connections we can make:

  1. Text to Self

     This is when we connect the text to our own experiences.

 Example: (This part's like the time I got a pet. That's kinda cool!)

  2. Text to Text

     Text to text connections are when we compare the text we are reading to other similar texts.

   These texts could be TV programs, visual texts, books, or in a movie.

 Example: (Elton John kind of reminds me of Elvis Presley.)

 3. Text to World

    This is when we connect what we are reading to things that really happen in the outside world.

  Example: (The country is facing a drought in the water reserves. This is like Manila, when the citizens are troubled by running out of clean, purified water.)

This topic helps me better understand what I have read because it helps me understand how it relates to our real world and because it helps me understand what goes on and how I can prevent the same thing from happening or how I can make things better.