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Making Connections. Finding Meaning in a Text. Clipart from www.discovery.com. Three Types of Connections. TS Text to Self TT Text to Text TW Text to World. Clipart from www.discovery.com. Text to Self. How does the reading relate to you personally?
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Making Connections Finding Meaning in a Text Clipart from www.discovery.com lhuff@bsd.k12.ar.us
Three Types of Connections • TS Text to Self • TT Text to Text • TW Text to World Clipart from www.discovery.com lhuff@bsd.k12.ar.us
Text to Self • How does the reading relate to you personally? • Characters similar to you or your friends? • Setting remind you of a place you’ve been? • Plot remind you of something in your own life? • Situations remind you of similar situations you’ve experienced? lhuff@bsd.k12.ar.us
Text to Text • Does the reading remind you of another text? • Are characters similar to characters in another book or movie? • Are settings similar to settings in other stories? • Are there similar situations/plots to a book, story, poem, or movie you’ve read or seen? lhuff@bsd.k12.ar.us
Text to World • How does the reading relate to larger world issues? • Is the reading similar to current events? • Does the reading remind you of historical events? • Does the reading remind you of societal issues, problems, controversies? lhuff@bsd.k12.ar.us
Making Insightful Connections • Don’t settle for “Shallow Hal” connections. • Dig DEEP for “Onion” ideas: meaningful connections that lead to discussion of BIG IDEAS. Clipart from www.discovery.com lhuff@bsd.k12.ar.us
The Shrek Factor • “Ogres are like onions. They have layers.” • To discover the “real” Shrek, you have to peel beyond the one dimensional surface • past his funny-looking ears, big clumsy hands, and ugly green skin. • to his complex character: loving, compassionate, loyal, humorous, lhuff@bsd.k12.ar.us
Peel the Layers of a Text • Layer OneLiteral Questions • Fact based, knowledge, comprehension level questions (Who, What, When, Where questions) • Require you to recall information given in text • Answers are found in the text or other available sources lhuff@bsd.k12.ar.us
Layer Two • Interpretation Questions • Text-bound questions that require analysis, synthesis, and evaluation • Reader has to put together information from different parts of the text to answer • You can’t find the answers by recalling one specific passage lhuff@bsd.k12.ar.us
Layer Three • Beyond-the-Text Questions (Open-ended) • Require you to apply knowledge gained in text to new situations • Reader has to put together information from the text and information from his own thinking to answer • “Why,” “How,” and “What do you think” questions • Lead to discussions of other issues and concepts related to the text lhuff@bsd.k12.ar.us
Search for the ONIONS • Ask INSIGHTFUL questions • Peel past the layer one questions • Dig through layers two and especially layer three • Make MEANINGFUL connections • Text to Self (TS) • Text to Text (TT) • Text to World (TW) lhuff@bsd.k12.ar.us
Making Connections Gives Meaning “I do believe that the power of fiction lies in the fact that it is a narrative, that it tells a story, big or small, for it is through stories that we are best able to recognize ourselves and learn about who we are and might be” (Adler). lhuff@bsd.k12.ar.us
“This is what comes to us in great books—moments of knowing, in an essential way, what love is, or who we are, or of what value life is, or answers to the questions we forever burn to answer but cannot. One of the most essential of all the big questions is "how ought we to live?" This question is essential to much of the worlds great literature” (Adler). lhuff@bsd.k12.ar.us
