MAKING CONNECTIONS (Text to Self, Text to Text and Text to World)

Using what you know to understand what you read…

It reminds me of when I read…because… (text to text)

It reminds me of the time I…because… (text to self)

It reminds me of something I read because… (text to text

or text to world)

It reminds me of something I heard about because… (text

to world)

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Books to use when teaching about making connections:

Text and Text to World

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E BUN / Amazing Grace -Mary Hoffman
Amos and Boris - William Steig
Day’s Work, A – Eve Bunting
Dog Breath - Dav Pilkey
Fly Away Home – Eve Bunting
Fireflies -Julie Brinckloe
Hazel’s Amazing Mother - Rosemary Wells
How Many Days to America - Eve Bunting
I Know a Lady - Charlotte Zolotow
I’m in Charge of Celebrations - ByrdBaylor
Ira Sleeps Over - Bernard Waber
Jamaica’s Find – Juanita Havill
Knots on a Counting Rope - BillMartin, Jr. and John Archambault
Lotus Seed, The -Sherry Garland
My Great Aunt Arizona -Gloria Houston
Roxaboxen -Alice McLerran
Smoky Night - Eve Bunting
TarBeach - Faith Ringold
Tenth Good Thing About Barney, The - Judith Viorst

Wall, The – Eve Bunting

Text-to-Self Connections
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E PAR
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E FOX
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E MCC
E POL
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E DEP
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E FOX
E HEN / Art Lesson, The - Tomie de Paola
Chester’s Way - Kevin Henkes
Chicken Sunday - Patricia Polacco
Chrysanthemum - Kevin Henkes
Days with Frog and Toad - Arnold Lobel
Every Living Thing (short story collection) - Cynthia Rylant
Frog and Toad All Year - Arnold Lobel
Frog and Toad Are Friends - Arnold Lobel
Frog and Toad Together - Arnold Lobel
Going Home - Eve Bunting
It’s Okay to Be Different - ToddParr
Julius, the Baby of the World - Kevin Henkes
Keeping Quilt, The - Patricia Polacco
Koala Lou - Mem Fox
Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse - Kevin Henkes
Margaret and Margarita - LynnReiser
Mirette on the High Wire - Emily A. McCully
Mrs. Katz and Tush - Patricia Polacco
Mrs. Mack - Patricia Polacco
My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother - Patricia Polacco
Nana Upstairs & Nana Downstairs - Tomie de Paola
Now One Foot, Now the Other - Tomie de Paola
Oliver Button is a Sissy - Tomie de Paola
Owen - Kevin Henkes
Pain and the Great One, The - Judy Blume
Pumpkin Jack – WillHubbell
Relatives Came, The - Cynthia Rylant
Sheila the Brave - Kevin Henkes
Snowy Day, The - Ezra Jack Keats
Some Birthday! - Patricia Polacco
Summer My Father Was Ten, The – PatBrisson
Thank You, Mr. Falker! - Patricia Polacco
Up North at the Cabin - Marshall Chall
What Are You So Grumpy About? - Tom Lichtenheld
When I Was Young in the Mountains - Cynthia Rylant
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge - Mem Fox
Wemberly Worried - Kevin Henkes

Text-to-Text Connections

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E BLU
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E ZOL / Appelemando's Dreams - Patricia Polacco
“Brother” in Poetry Speaks to Children - Mary Ann Hoberman
Gingerbread Man, The – Eric Kimmel
Jolly Postman and Other People’s Letters, The - Janet and Allan Ahlberg
Julius, the Baby of the World - Kevin Henkes
Just Plain Fancy - Patricia Polacco
Memory Box, The – Mary Bahr and David Cunningham
My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother - Patricia Polacco
Now One Foot, Now the Other - Tomie de Paola
Oliver Button is a Sissy - Tomie de Paola
Owen - Kevin Henkes
Pain and the Great One, The - Judy Blume
Piggie Pie - Margie Palatini
Relatives Came, The - Cynthia Rylant
Runaway Rice Cake, The - Ying Chang Compestine
Thank You, Mr. Falker - Patricia Polacco
Two of Them, The - Aliki
Wednesday Surprise, The - Eve Bunting
We’re going on a Lion Hunt - David Axtell
When Lightning Comes in a Jar - Patricia Polacco
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge - Mem Fox
William’s Doll - Charlotte Zolotow

Lesson Plans

Lessons plans can be found under comprehension resources.