Learning Strategies

Thanks to Julie Frost, ESL Coordinator for District 211 and current participant in the Institute to Credential Special Learning Needs Resource Specialists, for her insights!

In foreign language we used this strategy a lot and I use it in ESL too. Text to self; text to text; text to world. These sentence starters were given to me.

Text-to-self:

What does this remind me of in my life?
What is this similar to in my life?
How is this different from my life?
Has something like this ever happened to me?
How does this relate to my life?
What were my feelings when I read this?

Text-to-text:
What does this remind me of in another book I’ve read?
How is this text similar to other things I’ve read?
How is this different from other books I’ve read?
Have I read about something like this before?

Text-to-world:
What does this remind me of in the real world?
How is this text similar to things that happen in the real world?
How is this different from things that happen in the real world?
How did that part relate to the world around me?

I found this cartoon which I thought was cute!