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Summarizing and Making Connections 

 **Summarizing** is the ability to produce a condensed version of information. The summary includes only important elements and retains the order of the original information.  Good readers draw on prior knowledge and experience to help them understand what they are reading and are thus able to use that knowledge to **make connections.**

These connections include Text- to- Text Text -to- World** 
 * Text -to -Self

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 * The easiest connection to teach to children is the **text-to-self**. These are highly personal connections that a reader makes between a piece of reading material and the reader's experiences. When a reader says, "This story reminds me of a vacation we took to my grandfather's farm," the reader is expressing a text-to-self connection.  ||
 * The second kind of connection is **text-to-text.** Sometimes when we read, we are reminded of other things that we have read, other books by the same author, stories within a similar genre, poems that follow a similar theme, or writing that has a comparable style. This type of connection draws upon a reader's specific experiences with and knowledge of the world of print. Proficient readers gain insight during reading by thinking about how what they are reading connects to other familiar writing. When a reader says, "This character has the same problem that I read about in a story last year," the reader is expressing a text-to-text connection.  ||
 * The third kind of connection is **text-to-world**. We all have ideas about how the world works that go far beyond our own personal experiences. We learn about things through television or movies. We encounter information about the world through magazines and newspapers. We hear others relate their personal experiences in the world, and we form ideas from our interactions with them. Text-to-world connections are these larger connections that a reader brings to a reading situation. Often it is these text-to-world connections that teachers are trying to enhance when they teach lessons in science, social studies, and literature. When a reader says, "I saw a program on television that talked about things described in this article," the reader is expressing a text-to-world connection.  ||

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