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1. Making Connections Text-to-text connection

2. CONTENTS What is Text-to-text connection? . Importance of Text-to-text connection . How to make text-text-connection .

3. What is text-to-text connection? 01

4. A text-to-text connection is a strategy used to determine the relationship and commonalities between what a reader has read in the past to what they are currently reading. Text-to-text connections are one method of analyzing literature. When the reader breaks the writing into separate pieces, they are able to see how they relate to other writings. This deeper analysis of the writing involves a series of examinations that consider aspects of the author, the literary elements of the texts, as well as the reader's own response to the pieces of writing. A text-to-text connection occurs when something in the text reminds the reader of previously read text. Text-to-text connection

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6. Importance of text-to-text connection

7. The main reason we make these connections is to become better readers and writers. • Developing these skills will help you in not just your English classes but your other classes as well. •It will also help you develop writing skills that can be used in the workforce. •I n addition, making text-to-text connections will help with your comprehension of the two stories. You will have to not just read the material but evaluate it. •It will lead to more critical thinking and analysis. When you read a story to connect it to another, you will have to ask yourself questions and find these answers.

8. Making connections is a critical reading comprehension strategy that helps students make meaning of what they are reading. When students make connections to the texts that they are reading, it helps them to make sense of what they read, retain the information better, and engage more with the text itself.

9. How to make text-to-text connections?

10. 1 closely examine the literary elements within the writing. Specific literary elements include setting, character, and theme look closely at the characteristics of the authors. By comparing characteristics such as race, age, gender, and culture of the author to that of another piece of literature, a reader will have a deeper understanding of their influences 3 2 occurs when the reader reflects on their own experience in reading the piece. The prior personal experience a reader brings to the writing can alter the way they read a piece.

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