What You Need to Know

Key Concept Diagram

Text-to-self connections link ideas in a text to your own experiences and feelings

Text-to-text connections link ideas in one text to another text you have read

Text-to-world connections link ideas in a text to events or knowledge about the real world

Making connections helps readers understand and remember what they read

Key Vocabulary

Text-to-self

A connection between something in a text and your own life or experiences

Text-to-text

A connection between the current text and another book, story, or text you have read

Text-to-world

A connection between ideas in a text and things happening in the real world

Inference

Using clues in the text plus your own knowledge to work out something not directly stated

Knowledge Check

Select the correct answer for each question. Click "Check Answer" to see if you are right.

Question 1

Reading a story about moving to a new school reminds you of when you started at your school. This is a:

Text-to-world connection Text-to-text connection Text-to-self connection Literal connection

Question 2

While reading a non-fiction book about floods, you think of a news story about a flood you saw last year. This is a:

Text-to-self connection Summary Text-to-text connection Text-to-world connection

Question 3

Why do text connections help readers?

They help readers understand and remember the text better They replace the need to read carefully They only work for fiction texts They slow down reading speed

Making Text Connections