Categories: Learning Techniques & Templates
Estimated Time: 30-40 minutes
Materials Needed: Post-it® Super Sticky Notes, Post-it® Easel Pads, Markers, Assortment of books/articles/poems/tales from which students may choose, single text that the whole class reads, Post-it® Super Sticky Text-to-Self Template
Materials Needed:
- Post-it® Super Sticky Notes
- Post-it® Easel Pads
- Markers
- Assortment of books/articles/poems/tales from which students may choose
- single text that the whole class reads
- Post-it® Super Sticky Text-to-Self Template
Description:
Students use a text-to-self connection charts to better understand stories or books they’re reading.
Instructions:
Step 1: Explain that Text-to-Self connection is when you read a text that reminds you of your own life.
Step 2: Explain that the purpose of Text-To-Self connections is to help students understand and comprehend a text more effectively and activate their prior knowledge. Explain that the word text means - words in books, magazines, poems etc.
Step 3: Remind the students to think how the information they are reading may connect to their own lives in a fiction or nonfiction books.
Step 4: Have students choose a text to read or give students a text to read. Model filling out the Text-To-Self Connection chart by writing the titles of the book under each category on the board with Post-it® Super Sticky Notes.
Step 5: Hand out text-to-self connection graphic organizers with Post-it® Super Sticky Notes and have students fill-out the chart as they read. Students will place a Post-it® super Sticky Note with their connection under either one of the two categories: I read it in this text… and …This is similar to…
Step 6: Explain during Shared Reading or Guided Reading they can make a Text to Self connection.
Afterwards:
Objective: Students will understand the text through the use of text-to-self connections with Post-it® Super Sticky Notes.
Evaluate The Activity: Did I give the students enough time to discuss their connections? Review if the students made the connection to the text they read
Lesson Extensions: Use test-to-self connections from a newspaper or magazine. Give students the Text-to-Self organizer with Post-it® Super Sticky Notes and assign the task of making connections while reading text in another subject area.
Supporting All Learners: Students that have a problem writing in the Text-to-Self chart can draw a picture instead to show the connection of the one of the books to themselves.
Assignment/Home Connection: Assign students to read a story of their choosing, making connections, and writing them down on the Post-it® Text-to Self Connection chart using Post-it® Super Sticky notes.
