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Deepening Literacy: Text to Self; Text to Text; Text to World

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Rationale Reading comes alive when we make connections beyond the text itself. This is a skill that can be practiced and learned. In this strategy students will: Strengthen their literacy skills Make connections between the reading an themselves Make connections between the reading and other texts Make connections between the reading and the larger world Procedure Step One: Building Background Knowledge After reading a piece of text, ask students questions that draw out the factual information of the reading.