Reconnecting With

Making Connections
Angie Rosen

Why Are We Here?

Does this sound familiar?

What Does It Mean to

Make Connections?

What Does It Mean to

Make Connections?
To relate schema
and personal
experiences to
unfamiliar and
familiar text.
Text-to-self.
Text-to-text.
Text-to-world.

How Does Making

Connections Help Me As a
Reader?
It activates prior
knowledge and
schema.
It enhances
understanding.
It provides
engagement with
text.

Introducing
Schema

Schema, schema

Schema, schema
What I know
Watch it grow

I can make connections

Meaningful connections

Text to Self
Text to Text
Text to World

Schema

Teaching Schema throughout the Curriculum

What We Know
Before We Read

What is our

Schema?

How Does Our Schema

Change After Reading?

Lets Get Started!

Choose
appropriate
literature.
Use your
resources!

Show Your Thinking

MODEL!
MODEL!
MODEL!

Select quality literature that has purpose.

Mr. Rabbit and the

Lovely Present

Making
Connections
Meaningful

Making Meaningful Connections

Gradual Release

Guide Thinking for

Deeper
Comprehension
GROW
IDEAS!

Growing an Idea

CLOSURE
ACTIVITY

GROW
YOUR
OWN
IDEA!