3.  good readers make different kinds of
connections when they read.
 three types of connections:
› personal,
› textual,
› world.

4.  refers to connections made between the text
and the reader's personal experience.
 What does this story remind you of?
 Can you relate to the characters in the story?
 Does anything in this story remind you of anything in
your own life?

5.  refers to connections made between a text
being read to a text that was previously read.
 What does this remind you of in another book you
have read?
 How is this text similar to other things you have read?


6.  refers to connections made between a text being
read and something that occurs in the world.
 What does this remind you of in the real world?
 How are events in this story similar to things that
happen in the real world?
 How are events in this story different from things that
happen in the real world?

7. What Prometheus had thought about mankind with
connections such sympathy that he had dared to steal the
can I make? needed fire from Olympus, and for this he was
grievously punished by Zeus. But the lord of
Has Olympus did not think this cruelty was enough.
something Prometheus had a brother, Epimetheus, and
like this ever
happened to
though he was harmless and slow-witted, Zeus
me? extended his displeasure to him. He did not
punish Epimetheus as brutally as he had done
Can I relate his brother; he had a more subtle plan. It was a
this to any scheme which would not only affect Epimetheus
other story I
have read?
but also the whole race of human beings whom
Prometheus had dare to help and who were
living happily and untroubled

8.  Stop at the end of each page and write any
connections you can make with the story;
either personal, textual, or world.