ACTIVATE: 
Text-to-Text, Text-to-Self, Text-to-World

Spend some time first modeling for students how to preview a text and make meaningful connections in this way. (Examples are provided in the Pre-Reading Inside the Text section introduction.) 

After sufficient modeling, students can then use this strategy on their own to activate prior knowledge as they preview various texts. 

Refer to Educator Resource: Text-to-Text, Text-to-Self, Text-to-World for sample prompts while preparing text-to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world questions for a selected text. The provided language scripts can be offered to students to guide their responses.

STUDENTS QUICKWRITE:  Instruct students to jot down their responses to the text-to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world questions as a quickwrite. 

STUDENTS SHARE:  Have students share their responses and connections with an elbow partner. After allowing a couple of minutes for sharing, ask or call on students to share aloud.

Select a text, have students pair up, and instruct students to create their own text-to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world questions. Students will then exchange questions with another pair and use the questions to make connections to the text.