Teaching Suggestions
Personal Connections (text -self, text -world, text-text)
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Transitional (3-4)p.96
Provide opportunities for students to respond personally to texts in literature circles, response journals, or through other representations where they reflect on questions such as how they felt about the text, what it reminded them of, what part they liked best, etc. (See pp. 178– 181.) Model personal responses to texts. p.100 Model for students how to use personal experience/knowledge to assess the validity of a text. (e.g., I live on a farm and that’s exactly what the sheep on my farm are like.) NOTES p.97 During a class discussion of the novel, Class Clown, a grade 3 student makes some personal connections when she comments, “You know, Teacher, I think he wrote it about our class. All the things that happen in there happen to us. This is freaky!” |