Making+Connections

Helping a student make connections during learning is important. Students are more likely to remember new material if they make connections. Four simple connections are self to text, self to world, text to text, and text to world. Self to text means connecting something personal to something you read. Self to world means connecting something personal to something in the world, like the news. Text to text means making a connection between what you are reading now and what you have read in the past. Text to world means making a connection between something from you read to something in the world (past or present).

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Multiple Choice Practice Question: Making a connection helps a child to learn by: A. Making them confident in the material they already know. B. It builds on prior knowledge. C. It helps the materials make sense because the student has already learned some of the information. D. All of the above.

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