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Text To Self Connections

This document provides guidance on making text-to-self connections when reading fiction texts. It instructs students to summarize parts of the story, describe related personal experiences, and explain how those connections help them better understand characters' feelings or the overall themes in the text. Criteria for successful text-to-self connections include linking ideas in the story to one's own life, connecting to various story elements, providing detailed descriptions, and demonstrating improved comprehension.

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Text To Self Connections

This document provides guidance on making text-to-self connections when reading fiction texts. It instructs students to summarize parts of the story, describe related personal experiences, and explain how those connections help them better understand characters' feelings or the overall themes in the text. Criteria for successful text-to-self connections include linking ideas in the story to one's own life, connecting to various story elements, providing detailed descriptions, and demonstrating improved comprehension.

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Laura Taylor-Gillard
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Text-To-Self Connections

Title: Author:

In the story…
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This reminds me of…


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This helps me to understand…


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We are learning to build our understanding


of fiction texts by making text-to-self
connections.

Success Criteria:

o I can connect the ideas in the story to my


personal experiences
o I can make connections to the pictures,
plot, characters and feelings from the story
o I can describe in detail the part in the story
I am connecting to
o I can describe in detail my connection to
the text
o My connections help me to better
understand how a character is feeling or
the main idea in the text

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