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 Lighthouse Family: The Storm 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 - Rylant writes about Seabold, a dog, that is adventurous and likes to do things on his own.
- Text - Rylant also writes the Henry and Mudge series, and one of the main characters is Mudge who is also a dog. Mudge loves adventures, like camping.
TEXT TO SELF
- Text - Pandora loves being a lighthouse keeper. She loves that the lighthouse is a symbol of safety for people.
- Self - I met a lighthouse keeper once, while visiting my favorite lighthouse.
TEXT TO WORLD
- Text - Seabold gets in a shipwreck and Pandora rescues him. When he sees the condition his boat is in from the wreck, he is sad, but he vows to fix it.
- World - On the news, there was a segment about a shipwreck found on an island. People worked to fix the ship.
Template and Class Instructions
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Student Instructions
Create a storyboard that shows connections you have made with The Storm. Include a connection for text to text, text to world, and text to self.
- Click "Start Assignment".
- Identify parts of The Storm that you connect with.
- Parts from the The Storm 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/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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