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When readers engage with an unfamiliar text, they rely on their prior knowledge (e.g., personal experiences, conceptual understanding, other texts) to make sense or meaning of the text. According to Keene and Zimmermann (1997), readers make three types of connections before, during, or after reading: (a) text-to-self connections; (b) text-to ...
Three of the most popular strategies are making text to self, text-to-text, and text to world connections (Harvey & Goudvis, 2017; see also, 2007). Another strategy is developing and implementing paired text. PAIRED TEXT Paired text are two texts that are conceptually related in some way, e.g. topic, theme, genre, etc.
young children. Using stimulating and engaging text-to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world connections, teachers and learners realize the rich implications of the four key principles of Universal Design for Learning. Introduction "If our teaching is to be an art, we need to know we can draw from all we know and believe and
Using stimulating and engaging text-to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world connections, teachers and learners realize the rich implications of the four key principles of Universal Design for Learning. (Contains 1 figure and 1 footnote.)
During yesterday's webinar, we introduced the text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world applications of the Making Connections strategy. We reflected on how the WBL resources (see links above) reminded us of our work, other resources, and larger community connections. We invite everyone to continue this discussion:
This strategy invites students to use reading, writing poetry, and illustrating as tools to represent intertextual connections to self-selected paired text. It identifies poetic inquiry as the research methodology, discusses intertextuality, and provides a rationale for this instructional strategy.
Research questions focused on differences in reading comprehension scores between male and female students, using guided reading with text-to-self reading connections, and using guided reading using novels. The study involved a quantitative methodology using a pretest-posttest, quasiexperimental design.
Text to self Text to text Text to world Figure 3. Text’s Connection Connecting the reader, text, and transaction leads to induce meanings and achieve comprehension. The literary work has to offer linkage with the past experiences and interests, anxieties,