From the Team 1/2 classrooms...

From the Team 1/2 classrooms:

This week in Literacy, the Team 1/2 students have been using the reading strategy of Making Connections. 

Making Connections is when students make links between what they read and their own experience and existing knowledge. This helps make the story more meaningful and helps them to understand the story. 

Text to Self Connections is when a student relates what they read to their own personal experience. 

We used the text ‘The Deep’ by Tim Winton to make Text to Self Connections. Students listened to the story and thought about how the story connected to their own experiences. The students created chains of text to self connections as a visual representation of this reading strategy.