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Making Text Connections Bundle

This is a 17-slide PowerPoint Presentation on the Reading
Comprehension Strategy Making Text Connections. This is an extensive and thorough presentation that follows details the importance of making connections within and between text and other walks of life. My preview provides the entire PowerPoint so you will see what you are buying! Some of the headlines include:

> What Text Connections?
> How Will Connections Help?
> Activating Prior Knowledge
> Affective Connections
> Cognitive Connections
> Text-to-Text
> Text-to-Self
> Text-to-Media
> Text-to-World
> Making Connection Introductory Lead-ins

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Common Core Anchor Standards

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.1 Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.2 Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.3 Analyze how and why individuals, events, or ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.2 Write informative/explanatory texts
to examine and convey complex ideas and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.9 Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take.