Making Connections in The Treasure by Uri Shulevitz

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 Treasure is a great story for students to connect to. The storyboard example below includes only one connection, but students will make three types of connections: text to text, text to world, and text to self.

TEXT TO SELF

Text: Isaac has a reoccurring dream where a voice tells him to go to the city and look for treasure.

Self: I once had a dream about finding treasure and becoming rich.

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Template and Class Instructions

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Student Instructions

Create a storyboard that shows connections you have made with The Treasure. Include a connection for text to text, text to world, and text to self.

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Identify parts of The Treasure that you connect with.
Parts from the The Treasure 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.

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Lesson Plan Reference

Grade Level 2-3

Difficulty Level 2 (Reinforcing / Developing)

Type of Assignment Individual

Common Core Standards

[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)

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Text Connections

Create a storyboard that shows connections you have made with the text: Text to Text, Text to World, & Text to Self.

	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.