What is the Making Connections comprehension strategy?
Why is Making Connections important?
"Readers naturally bring their prior knowledge and experience to reading, but they comprehend better when they think about the connections they make between the text, their lives, and the world at large." |
"Students gain a deeper understanding of a text when they make authentic connections. However, teachers need to know how to show students how a text connects to their lives, another text they have read, or the world around them." |
How can Making Connections be used?
Sources
Here are sites we found helpful in preparing this
page about the Making Connections reading strategy:
page about the Making Connections reading strategy:
- Busy Teachers Cafe: Comprehension Strategies
- Diane Kardash: Making Connections
- Stoneville Elementary School: Making Connections
- Reading Lady: Strategy: Schema/Making Connections
- Reading Lady: Schema Plans
- Reading Lady: Reading Strategy Presentations to the High School Teachers
- Debbie Draper, DECS Curriculum Consultant, Northern Adelaide: Comprehension Strategies: Making Connections
- Facing History and Ourselves: Teaching Strategy: Text-to-Text, Text-to-Self, Text-to-World