Think aloud. Text-to-Text Connections

Day 1

After they understand text-to-self connection introduce text-to-text connections.

Read  Oliver Button by Tomie dePaola
Talk through the text together, making connections about teasing, bullies, talent shows, and moms and dads.

Day 2

Read Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman

When you get to the part where Raj tells Grace she can't be Peter Pan because she isn't a boy... stop reading and put the book down and think aloud.

Connect it to Oliver Button Is a Sissy
The boys made fun of him because he loved to dance. I'm thinking Grace and Oliver are alike in some ways.
Neither one of the charaters gav up

Explain when readers do what you do and make a connection form a book they are reading to a book they have read before they are making a text-to-text connection.
You use connections from one book to help you understand the new story and making predictions about what may happen based on what you know from the other story

When it gets to the part where the class meets for audtions, put the book down.
Make the prediction that Grace will be Peter Pan in the play, because I remember Oliver Button practiced and practice just like Grace did.

After the book is read, ask the class what they noticed me doing when I stopped to make text-to-text connections

Create a Venn Diagram to compate features (characters) between the text.


*Debbie Miller, Reading with Meaning.