Making Connections

Digging Below the Surface

To Find Meaning in a Text

Three Types of Connections

TS Text to Self

TT Text to Text

TW Text to World

3 Kinds of Connections

Text to Self

How does the reading relate to you personally?

Characters similar to you or your friends?Setting remind you of a place you’ve been?Plot remind you of something in your own

life?Situations remind you of similar situations

you’ve experienced?

Text to Text

Does the reading remind you of another text?

Are characters similar to characters in another book or movie?

Are settings similar to settings in other stories? Are there similar situations/plots to a book, story,

poem, or movie you’ve read or seen? Have you read/viewed other texts with similar

situations?

Text to World

How does the reading relate to larger world/societal issues?

Is the reading similar to current events?Does the reading remind you of historical

events?Does the reading remind you of societal

issues, problems, controversies?

Ogres are like onions: They have layers.

Making Insightful Connections

Dig DEEP for “Onion” ideas: meaningful connections that lead to discussion of BIG IDEAS.

DIG beyond the surface to the deeper meanings of a text.

Connect to the Text!