Making Connections-The Highway Rat

Connections are ideas that are the same linked with reader's knowledge. There are three different types of connections there are text to self, text to text and text to world.

Text to self is comparing what happened in the text with something that happened in the book with something that happened to you. For example in The Highway Rat the duck buys two cupcakes. The duck likes eating cupcakes. My Connection is when I went to the shop I bought  two lollie bags and ate both of them. The connection is that me and the duck both like sweets.

Text to text is comparing the text with a different text. For example the duck tricked the rat by telling him about her made up sister which has lots of junk food to avoid being eaten. The duck thought about what the rat would like to eat instead of her. My connection is in the Gruffalo the mouse tricks different animals by telling them about a terrible creature to avoid being eaten.The connection is that the duck and the mouse both trick people to avoid being eaten.

Text to world is comparing what happened in the text with something that happened in the world. For example The Duck gave the stolen food to the starving travellers. In the text we inferred that the duck thought about the starving travelers instead of herself. My Connection is people around the world donate starving people food. The connection is that the duck and people around the world give starving people food.

Making connections can help readers understand about the text, world and eachother.