making Connections
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Children make personal connections with the text by using their schema (background knowledge). This strategy sits well in the Constructivist field of learning .
There are three main types of connections we make while reading text.
- Text-to-Self (T-S) refers to connections made between the text and the reader's personal experience.
- Text-to-Text (T-T) refers to connections made between a text being read to a text that was previously read.
- Text-to-World (T-W) refers to connections made between a text being read and something that occurs in the world.
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This was an activity I used to reinforce this strategy whilst on my placement with Year 2. I worked with small groups of 6 students. Each student read a story and wrote their connections on pieces of paper, which we added to our 3 paper chain ring once we decided which category they fitted in. It was a popular activity and resulted in a very long list of text-to self connections. (This alone prompted some students to challenge themselves to make more text-to-world connections).
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