Making Connections After reading the narrative entitled The Plan, complete this activity sheet.
What Do I Understand? This is like that other movie we saw ...
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How do you understand texts? One way is to make connections. We can make connections with other texts. We can make connections with things that we have done, things we have seen, places we have been, things we remember. Have you ever watched a movie and thought, “This is like another movie that I’ve seen before”? That’s making a connection! Have you ever read a story and said, “If I were the person in the story I would ...”? That’s making a connection! Connections help us to understand what we have read.
1. The Plan reminds me of another story: _________________________________________
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3. If I was the character Sarah in the story The Plan I would:
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2. The main character Sarah in The Plan is like another character in a story: __________________________
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Extra Activities • Now try making the above connections using a visual text that you have seen, like a movie or an animation. • Writing can help your reading. Write an ending to the story The Plan. 20
Curriculum Link: Make connections between students’ own experiences and those of characters and events represented in texts drawn from different historical, social and cultural contexts (ACELT1613) Elaborations: Recognising the influence our different historical, social and cultural experiences may have on the meaning we make from the text and the attitudes we may develop towards characters, actions and events.