Making connections

Good readers know that using knowledge to make a connection will help them understand their reading better. They use memories, personal experiences, and background information to help them remember and understand what they had read.

Connecting the new
to the known

Text-to-Text

These connections occur when readers think about other written texts such as movies, songs, or stories to enhance their understanding of what they have read.

Text-to-Self

These connections occur when readers use something from their personal experiences or memory to help them understand what is happening.

Tex-to-World

These connections are associations the reader makes between the text and what is happening in the world around them. They are factual and refer to past, present, and future.

Connections Help readers...

• Relate to characters
• Visualize
• Avoid boredom
• Remember what they have read
• Listen to other readers