Making+Connections

= Making Connections = TEKS
 * Establish purpose for reading selected texts and monitor comprehension, making corrections and adjustments when that understanding breaks down (e.g., identifying clues, using background knowledge, generating questions, re-reading a portion aloud).
 * Make connections (e.g., thematic links, author analysis) between literary and informational texts with similar ideas and provide textual evidence.

==__Making Connections Think Aloud__ == >
 * Use the question stems below while reading to model making connections.
 * //Text to World Think Aloud: // · “Good readers not only make connections to themselves and other texts, but they also make connections to the world, or other people. When we read and learn new things, we have to look at it through other people’s eyes as if we were that person. This is called a TTW connection.” Read and stop for 1 think aloud. (“I know about .... it's something that..." If you are reading The Kapok Tree and you stop and talk about all the things you know about the rain forest. “When I think like this while I’m reading, I’m making a TTW connection. When I make a TTW connection I think about what I already know about something and then I think about how what I know changes.” Explain that the purpose of connections is to help understand and comprehend a text more effectively and what they already know will change because of what they read.

==__Introduce Making Connections:__ ==
 * Use the Making Connections posters as a visual aid, introduce the three types of connections Text-to-Self Connection, Text-to-Text Connection , and Text-to-World Connection . or you can use any poster about this you already have. Explain how readers often make connections to a story to help them better understand the text.
 * **Text-to-Self (T-S)** refers to connections made between the text and the reader's personal experience.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**Text-to-Text (T-T)** refers to connections made between a text being read to a text that was previously read.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**Text-to-World (T-W)** refers to connections made between a text being read and something that occurs in the world.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">//**Stems to Use When Modeling Making Connections**// <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Text-to-self**:

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Text-to-text**: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Text-to-world**:
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">What does this remind me of in my life?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">What is this similar to in my life?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">How is this different from my life?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Has something like this ever happened to me?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">How does this relate to my life?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">What were my feelings when I read this?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">What does this remind me of in another book I’ve read?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">How is this text similar to other things I’ve read?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">How is this different from other books I’ve read?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Have I read about something like this before?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">What does this remind me of in the real world?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">How is this text similar to things that happen in the real world?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">How is this different from things that happen in the real world?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">How did that part relate to the world around me?

==<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">__Making Connections Lessons__ == ==<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** [|Connections Lesson Plan 2.doc]** ==

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Expository Text Lessons:**

 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Use an expository text or read an expository article from one of the following websites or BOOKFLIX from the library website that pairs a nonfiction and a fiction book together. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">National Geographic . <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">Time for Kids Scholastic News  Copy or have the students reporoduce their connections in their reading response journal. Student Friendly Making Connections stem worksheet, good for beginning the lesson. [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png height="32" link="http://tves3rdgradereading.wikispaces.com/file/view/Making+Connections+Build_a_Connection.pdf"]] [|Making Connections Build_a_Connection.pdf]
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Graphic Organizers for each time of connection for students to fill in or make in their reading response journal[[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/x-zip.png height="32" link="http://tves3rdgradereading.wikispaces.com/file/view/text+to+self+connections+sheet.docx"]] [|text to self connections sheet.docx][[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/x-zip.png height="32" link="http://tves3rdgradereading.wikispaces.com/file/view/text+to+text.docx"]] [|text to text.docx][[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/x-zip.png height="32" link="http://tves3rdgradereading.wikispaces.com/file/view/text+to+world.docx"]] [|text to world.docx]
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Tic Tac Toe can be used in reading response journal or during guided reading to help monitor connections.[[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png height="32" link="http://tves3rdgradereading.wikispaces.com/file/view/Making+Connections+TIC+TAC+TOE.pdf"]] [|Making Connections TIC TAC TOE.pdf]

==<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">Making Connections with Fiction: ==
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Use the think-aloud strategy to model how to make each type of connection, using your list of personal connections to this text. You can use a read aloud of your choice or use this lesson to help you using Bigmama's and The Relatives Came. This is a fiction think aloud lesson plan lesson plan: [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/msword.png height="32" link="http://tves3rdgradereading.wikispaces.com/file/view/Making+Connections+Think+Aloud+Lesson.doc"]] [|Making Connections Think Aloud Lesson.doc]
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Tic Tac Toe can be used in reading response journal or during guided reading to help monitor connections.[[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png height="32" link="http://tves3rdgradereading.wikispaces.com/file/view/Making+Connections+TIC+TAC+TOE.pdf"]] [|Making Connections TIC TAC TOE.pdf]
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Student Friendly Making Connections stem worksheet, good for beginning [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png height="32" link="http://tves3rdgradereading.wikispaces.com/file/view/Making+Connections+Build_a_Connection.pdf"]] [|Making Connections Build_a_Connection.pdf]


 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Making Connections Bookmark[[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/text/html.png height="32" link="http://tves3rdgradereading.wikispaces.com/file/view/Making+Connections+bookmark.html"]] [|Making Connections bookmark.html]

[|MakingConnectionsMini-lessons-1.pdf] <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">//Wemberley Worried// a young mouse who worries about everything. After we read, I talked briefly about a couple times in my life I have been really nervous about starting something new. Then we sat in a circle and all who wanted to shared a similar experience. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|//Chrysanthemum//] (Kevin Henkes) aloud. We talked about how Chrysanthemum must have felt when the other girls teased her about her name. It didn't take long for one of the kids to make a text-self connection, at which point I referred to her comment as a text-self connection and explained what I meant, very briefly--it was still their discussion. When the discussion was winding down, everyone wrote in their reading response journals about a time when someone made fun of them--making their own text-self connections. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">//Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse// -- I stopped periodically while reading and said things like "Wow, that reminds me of Chrysanthemum,etc" At the end, I said I had been making text-text connections. Then, they wrote something about the Lilly book that reminded them of Chrysanthemum or Wemberly. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">//Chester's Way// -- perfect for text-text because Lilly is in this book too. Then we made a chart with the above four books and listed the characters/setting/problem and solution in each book. Once we had that information on the chart it was very easy to see all the text-text connections! <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|//Koala Lou by Mem Fox//]. The kids were bursting with text-self connections but the one connection I stressed was with the Olympics in Australia. I think the text-world concept is harder simply because it is one step farther removed from their own lives. Next week we are studying the river and will do The River Runs Wild (Lynne Cherry) which I think will also be appropriate for text-world.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">More mini lessons, more specific for Making Connections, also includes book list that lends to Making Connections.

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">__Books:__
Book List [|Making Connections Books]

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">__Assessment:__
Use the rubric below to assess students level of making connections.

Connections || 1 || 2 || 3 || 4 || connections with the text || Talks about what text reminds them of, but cannot explain or relate clearly to the text || Relates background knowledge/ experience to text, || Uses background knowledge to enhance comprehension and Interpretation Makes text-to-text and text-to-self connections; uses author schema with familiar text to make predictions ||
 * Making
 * || Does not make

Book List [|Making Connections Books]

==<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**__**Assessment:**__** == Use the rubric below to assess students level of making connections. [|Making Connections Sheet Rubric.pdf]

Making Connections Rubric

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1 || ==<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">****//Good//**** == 2 || ==<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">****//Great!//**** == 3 || ==<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">****//Marvelous!//**** == 4 ||
 * ==<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">****//Needs Improvement//**** ==
 * ======<span style="font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">//Preparation// ====== || Rarely prepared with connections to share from the assigned reading || Sometimes prepared with connections to share from the assigned reading || Usually prepared with connections to share from the assigned reading || Always prepared with connections to share from the assigned reading ||
 * **//Participation &//**
 * //Active Listening//** || Rarely shares connections from the assigned reading or reactions to others’ comments about the book || Sometimes shares connections from the assigned reading or reactions to others’ comments about the book || Usually shares connections from the assigned reading or reactions to others’ comments about the book || Always shares connections from the assigned reading or reactions to others’ comments about the book ||
 * **//Explanation of Connections u//** || Rarely explains how connections help to understand the text || Sometimes explains how connections help to understand the text || Usually explains how connections help to understand the text || Always explains how connections help to understand the text ||
 * **//Variety of Connections//** || Rarely makes a variety of connections || Mostly makes one kind of connection || Usually makes a variety of connections || Always makes a variety of connections ||
 * **//C.U.P.S.//** || Rarely uses CUPS || Sometimes uses CUPS || Usually uses CUPS || Always uses CUPS ||