Connecting

• Text to self
• Text to world
• Text to text
• Using various forms of background knowledge to interpret text
  

Reading Strategies Webpage This website gives a great description of the reading strategies. It also includes a definition of each strategy, application and technology ideas to implement each strategy.

Reading Comp Strategies, Demonstration - a QuickTime video that shows classroom teachers teaching students how to make connections during reading.

Reading Workshop, Making Connections - teaching students to make text to text, text to self, and text to world connections; also lists other connection resources.

FOR-PD's Reading Strategy of the Month - Florida Department of Instruction For-Pd Instruction: Teaching Connecting to the Text.

http://cpanel.servdns.net/~readingl/Comprehension/Text_To_Self/text_to_self.html - teaching students to make text to self connections.

Read Write Think, Making Connections Using a Double-Entry Journal - lesson plan about making connections using a double-entry journal.

http://www.bham.wednet.edu/departments/libmedtech/Supervisors/SecReadingCompRubric.doc - rubric - using connections to activate prior knowledge.

Ashley Brown, Westwood Elementary, "Making Connections" PowerPoint