Making Connections in The Raft

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Text Connections
Text to Text	Connection that reminds you of something in another book or story
Text to Self	Connection that reminds you of something in your life.
Text to World	Connection that reminds you of something happening in the world.

Making connections is a very important skill to acquire and perfect. The Raft is a great story for students to connect to on many different levels. In this activity, students will be making text to text, text to self, and text to world connections. Students should choose which connection they want to make first and work to write a narrative for that. Once all three connections have been made, students can work on their illustrations.

TEXT TO TEXT

Text: Nicky loves spending time on the raft he found.
Text: In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck Finn travels a river on his raft.

TEXT TO SELF

Text: Nicky did not want to spend the summer with his Grandma.
Self: When I was little, I did not want to go to my Grandma's house.

TEXT TO WORLD

Text: Nicky describes a moment he had on the raft with otters.
World: On the news, they talked about a zoo that had an otter exhibit and the otters could do fun tricks.

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Create a storyboard that shows connections you have made with The Raft. Include a connection for text to text, text to world, and text to self.

Click "Start Assignment".
Identify parts of The Raft that you connect with.
Parts from the The Raft go on the left side. The connections you make go on the right side.
Create an image for each connection using scenes, characters, items, and text boxes.
Write a description of how the text relates to another text, the world, and you.

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Making Connections in The Raft

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