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Making Connections
Text-to-self: Text-to-self is when you're relating a book that you're are reading to yourself.
Text-to-world: Text-to-world is when you're relating the a book that you're reading to the world around you.
Text-to-text: Text-to-text is when you're relating a book that you're reading to another book you've read.
Examples: Text-to-text: Monster and Number the Stars are similar to each other because it's both about crime and alot of violence.
Examples:Text-to-world: Monster is similar to the world because robberies actually happen and people get blamed for the crime and go to court.
Examples: Text-to-self: Monster is similar to me because I got blamed on things that I didn't do alot of times and at the end, I ended up being not guilty.
Summarizing
Steps to write a paragraph
1. Look at the title
2. Ask yourself: What is discussed through the whole section?
3. Look at the captions, pictures, words in bold, and headings for clues for the topic.
4.What do they all have in common?
5.Identify all details and major events
Authors often plan important ideas in:
* details that reflect the title
* details at the beginning of the text
* details at the end
* suprises or revalations
* repetitions
* * If you have not read the text, would you be able to understand what it was about from the summary, why or why not? You would understand the texts by doing everything it says above.
Asking Questions
Asking Questions about what you read like, am I getting this, or what do I do, or you could even say to yourself that your confused.
Reread to see if you missed any important fact or definition of a hard word.
Asking Questions to learn more like what is this article about, or what did he/she do that is important and when did he or she live and do I like this character?
Asking Questions to find out what you do or don't know, or even to get to know something new.
Steps: 1. Preview the article/book. Look at what is bold. 2. Read the article/book one section at a time. 3. Think as you read. STOP and ask yourself, am I getting this? 4. Take notes as you read. 5. Share ideas about what you read with a partner.
Text-to-world: Text-to-world is when you're relating the a book that you're reading to the world around you.
Text-to-text: Text-to-text is when you're relating a book that you're reading to another book you've read.
Examples: Text-to-text: Monster and Number the Stars are similar to each other because it's both about crime and alot of violence.
Examples:Text-to-world: Monster is similar to the world because robberies actually happen and people get blamed for the crime and go to court.
Examples: Text-to-self: Monster is similar to me because I got blamed on things that I didn't do alot of times and at the end, I ended up being not guilty.
Summarizing
Steps to write a paragraph
1. Look at the title
2. Ask yourself: What is discussed through the whole section?
3. Look at the captions, pictures, words in bold, and headings for clues for the topic.
4.What do they all have in common?
5.Identify all details and major events
Authors often plan important ideas in:
* details that reflect the title
* details at the beginning of the text
* details at the end
* suprises or revalations
* repetitions
* * If you have not read the text, would you be able to understand what it was about from the summary, why or why not? You would understand the texts by doing everything it says above.
Asking Questions
Asking Questions about what you read like, am I getting this, or what do I do, or you could even say to yourself that your confused.
Reread to see if you missed any important fact or definition of a hard word.
Asking Questions to learn more like what is this article about, or what did he/she do that is important and when did he or she live and do I like this character?
Asking Questions to find out what you do or don't know, or even to get to know something new.
Steps: 1. Preview the article/book. Look at what is bold. 2. Read the article/book one section at a time. 3. Think as you read. STOP and ask yourself, am I getting this? 4. Take notes as you read. 5. Share ideas about what you read with a partner.
