Activity Overview
| Text Connections | |
|---|---|
| Text to Text | Connection that reminds you of something in another book or story |
| Text to Self | Connection that reminds you of something in your life. |
| Text to World | Connection that reminds you of something happening in the world. |
Making connections is a very important skill to acquire and perfect. The Raft is a great story for students to connect to on many different levels. In this activity, students will be making text to text, text to self, and text to world connections. Students should choose which connection they want to make first and work to write a narrative for that. Once all three connections have been made, students can work on their illustrations.
TEXT TO TEXT
- Text: Nicky loves spending time on the raft he found.
- Text: In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck Finn travels a river on his raft.
TEXT TO SELF
- Text: Nicky did not want to spend the summer with his Grandma.
- Self: When I was little, I did not want to go to my Grandma's house.
TEXT TO WORLD
- Text: Nicky describes a moment he had on the raft with otters.
- World: On the news, they talked about a zoo that had an otter exhibit and the otters could do fun tricks.
Template and Class Instructions
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Student Instructions
Create a storyboard that shows connections you have made with The Raft. Include a connection for text to text, text to world, and text to self.
- Click "Start Assignment".
- Identify parts of The Raft that you connect with.
- Parts from the The Raft go on the left side. The connections you make go on the right side.
- Create an image for each connection using scenes, characters, items, and text boxes.
- Write a description of how the text relates to another text, the world, and you.
Lesson Plan Reference
- [ELA-Literacy/W/2/8] Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
- [ELA-Literacy/W/3/3] Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
- [ELA-Literacy/RL/3/9] Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories written by the same author about the same or similar characters (e.g., in books from a series)
Rubric
(You can also create your own on Quick Rubric.)
| Proficient | Emerging | Beginning | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Text Connections | Student made and labeled all three text connections correctly. | Student made and labeled two text connections correctly. | Student made and labeled one text connection correctly. |
| Examples of Connections | All examples of connections support understanding of text. | Most examples of connections support understanding of text. | Most examples of connections do not support understanding of text or are difficult to understand. |
| Illustration of Examples | Ideas are well organized. Images clearly show the connections student made with the text. | Ideas are organized. Most images help to show the connections student made with the text. | Ideas are not well organized. Images are difficult to understand. |
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