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Minilesson: Text-to-World

Connections in

 

Title: Minilesson: Making text-to-world connections

 

Standards:

Common Core

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.1

Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.2.3

Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text.

 

Materials:

  • PowerPoint presentation

  • Whiteboard

  • Book- The Story of Babar by Jean de Brunhoff                                                                                

    •  Description of Text: Babar witnesses the shooting and death of his mother in the jungle. Babar runs and ends up at the city. He meets the old lady who buys him new clothes and shoes. Babar becomes the hit of the town. His two cousins come to the city and Babar ends up going back with them to the jungle. Babar marries Celeste. Babar becomes king of the elephants.

  • Text-to-World Graphic Organizer handouts

 

​Objectives:

  • The students will be able to identify text-to-world connections in the text.  

  • The students will create a connections web with one of their personal reading texts of their choosing.

 

Procedure: (15min.)

Previous Knowledge: The students will have read and discussed the text-to self and text-to-text connections.

1) The teacher will use the think-aloud strategy to explain the text-to-world connections found in the text. The teacher will start by saying:

  • “Text- to-world connections are connections that are relatable between the text and the real world. These connections help to understand the story and relate the text to real life issues. For example, when something happens in a story and it relates to something I saw on the news the nit would be a text-to-world connection. Let’s practicing making connections with Babar.”

 

2) The teacher will model how to create a web of the different text-to-world connections. The teacher will start by telling the students: “ The big bubble in the middle is where you write the title of the story. The branches off the big bubble are connecting smaller bubbles. The smaller bubbles will have written descriptions of possible text-to-world connections.”  

 

3) The teacher will then model a connections web for The Story of Babar. The teacher will ask the students to share several examples that they saw in the text. The teacher will ask what events in the story reminded them of events in the real-world. After the teacher has written all the students possible suggestions in the web, she will fill in the web with connections they did not say. 

 

 

4) The teacher will emphasize and expand on the connections, character qualities, and main ideas that help enhance the understanding of the novel such as:

  • The courage and bravery Babar had when he saw his mother get shot and the need to protect endangered animals from predators

  • The materialistic objects Babar gains in the city and how it relates to our materialistic society.

  • The homesickness he felt for the jungle and how it could relate to immigrants longing for their homeland.

 

5) The students will create their own connections web for their personal reading text of their choosing. The teacher will pose several questions for the students:

  • What does this remind you of in the real world?

 

Assessment:  

  • During- The students will engage in the questions posed throughout the minilesson and participate in discussion and creating of the web.

 

  • End of Lesson- The students will create a web, chart or diagram displaying the text-to-world connections using their personal reading text of their choosing.

 

APA Citation:

Brunhoff, J.  (1961). The Story of Babar, the little elephant. New York, NY: Random House.

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