Teaching topic: Literacy (defined reading comprehension strategies): Making connections

"Making connections involves the activation of prior knowledge in the process of evoking personal connections with the text. Connections may be text-to-self, text-to-text, text-to-word."

In: Bowe, Treasa; Gleeson, Martin; Courtney, Ann. Building bridges of understanding: theory and actual classroom practices in multiple comprehension strategy instruction: resource. Limerick: Mary Immaculate College, Curriculum Development Unit, [2012]. P.8.