Making+Connections

= Making Connections   = · Bring background knowledge to the reading of a text. · Understand purposes for reading texts. · Interpret texts using personal experiences and knowledge of the world. · Connect the topic, characters, plot, and setting to personal experience, knowledge of the world, and knowledge of other texts. · Make connections between and among texts, noticing similarities and differences. · Relate words to visual images. · Relate feeling and emotions to the meaning in the text. · Search for relationships among texts using a wide range of criteria – the same genre, author, illustrator, topic, theme, issue, setting, historical period, character (or a similar character), culture, ethnic group, or age group.