This is my favourite! I know you’ve heard this and had to do it for years in those silly reading response journals!  The truth is this is how we talk about things! We relate them to things we already know! Hey that reminds me of….Hey me too! I know you don’t need to hear it again but here are the connections we can make:

Text-Self

This is when we connect to our own experiences.

Text-Text

This is when we connect to other books or movies.

Text-world

This is when we connect to major events that take place in our world.