Department of Education

English 6
Making Connections between Information
Viewed/Read and Personal Experiences
First Quarter: Module 3
Lesson 3 - Making Connections between
Information and Personal Experiences

Norlito A. Argante
Jennider R. Oruga
Charito S. Agoncillo
Writers
Girlie C. Campos
Joyce V. Raymundo
Marie Ann R. Esmeria
Ma. Carmen D. Solayao
Validators

Schools Division Office – Muntinlupa City

Student Center for Life Skills Bldg., Centennial Ave., Brgy. Tunasan, Muntinlupa City
(02) 8805-9935 / (02) 8805-9940
 This module was designed and written with you in mind. It provides
you with meaningful and engaging learning experiences that will help you
master the lessons.

The lesson in this module is:

● Lesson 3 – Connections of Personal Experience and Information

Viewed/Read

After going through this module, you are expected to:

 making connections between information viewed and personal

experiences through guided activities.

Directions: Encircle the letter of the correct answer.

1. This comprehension strategy means to use what you know to

understand what you are reading.
A. visualizing C. making connections
B. determining importance D. summarizing

2. A connection between the book and your life experiences

A. text-to-text C. Text-to-self
B. text-to-world D. text-to-media

3. A connection between the book and another book you have read
A. text-to-text C. text-to-self
B. text-to-world D. text-to-media

4. A connection between the book and events in real life

A. text-to-text C. text-to-self
B. text-to-world D. text-to-media

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 5. A connection between the book and something you have seen on TV, the
internet, or in a song
A. text-to-text C. text-to-self
B. text-to-world D. text-to-media

6. Something similar happened to me when I was little…

This is an example of which type of connection?
A. text-to-text C. text-to-self
B. text-to-world D. text-to-media

7. This book reminds me of the Harry Potter books because...

This is an example of which type of connection?
A. text-to-text C. text-to-self
B. text-to-world D. text-to-media

8. This book reminds me of World War II because...

This is an example of which type of connection?
A. text-to-text C. test-to-self
B. text-to-world D. text-to-media

9. What type of connection is this: I read a book about how grocery stores
get their food. It reminded me of the grocery trucks that drive by on the
highway every day.
A. text-to-text C. text-to-self
B. text-to-world D. text-to-media

10. What type of connection is this: I read a book about what life was like
before electricity. It reminded me of the time I went camping in a cabin
that had no electricity.
A. text-to-text C. text-to-self
B. text-to-world D. text-to-media

Making Connections between

Lesson
Information and Personal
3 Experiences

Learners like you are connecting your background knowledge to the text
that you are reading or you have been reading.

Readers comprehend better when they actively think about and apply
their knowledge of the book's topic, their own experiences, and the world
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around them. When you understand how to connect the text you are reading
to your own experiences, you begin to make connections between what you
read and the larger world.
This pushes you into thinking about bigger and more expansive issues
beyond your home, school and neighborhood.

In this lesson, you will understand the connections between

information viewed or read and personal experiences.

A. Knowing Out
Directions: Interview (1) of your parents or grandparents ask them their
personal experiences when they were still studying in school.
Ask about:

1. The Name of the Person to be interviewed

___________________________________________________________________________

2. The Last School Year attended

___________________________________________________________________________

3. The strategies or ways they used to do in order to learn

___________________________________________________________________________

4-5. The comparison on how learners learn before and how learners learn
today

___________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________

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__________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________
B. Helping out

Directions: With the help of a Para-Teacher, compare and contrast a

Traditional Learner to a 21st Century Learner or (GenZ Learners and Digital
Native Learners), using this Venn Diagram.

Traditional Learners 21st Century Learners

LEARNERS

Directions: Identify the given words and phrases inside the box and write it
in the chart at the back as to how they are connected or related to self, text
and the world.

story books family poems own thoughts

own ideas television travels textbooks

internet characters current events newspaper

school articles movies

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 TEXT TO SELF TEXT TO TEXT TEXT TO WORLD

Good readers draw understanding of a text from their prior knowledge

and experience to help you understand what you are reading and thus be able
to use that knowledge to make connections. By teaching you how to connect
to the text you can better understand what you are reading.

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 Activating prior knowledge and experiences is a good starting point to
understand the text. Student has experiences, knowledge, opinions, and
emotions that they can draw upon.

Different Kinds of Connections:

Text-to-Self Text-to-Text Text-to-World

connections connections connections
between text and between text and between text and
reader’s life or other books, events in the real
experiences. movies or songs world

Making Connection

Connections can Connections can

be made with be presented in a
Helps you in a
plot, character, reading response
deeper
setting, theme or essay, letter, or
understanding of
topic of text. visual art
the text.
format.
Example:
Example:
Example:
Milo
Kim loves to
remembered the Dexter bought
cook. She always
kindness of the bananas for
read a cookbook
man to the old lunch. He
for her to
beggar in the remembered an
improve her
story he read article posted on
skills.
about “A Beggar Facebook, that
and A Lady”. bananas can
fight against
COVID19.

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Directions: Read the story and the answer the Comprehension Check
below.

Ezekiel’s Test
Ezekiel’s Language teacher announced that their test would be given
on Friday. As she walked around the class, she handed out a study guide.
“You will complete this study guide at home tonight. It is due tomorrow. I
want to go over it together as a class so you have enough time to study
through the week,” Mrs. Manansala explained. “Do your best. This study
guide looks a lot like the test.”
English was difficult for Ezekiel, so he was nervous about the test on
Friday. With the right answers on his study guide, Ezekiel went to his room
every night that week and studied. He looked at the guide over and over. It
didn’t seem to be helping, though. Ezekiel was still very nervous and he felt
unprepared. What would the problems look like on the real test? How would
they be different than the study guide?

On Friday, Ezekiel took his seat in class. He sat next to the smartest
girl in the grade. He glanced over at her paper at the very beginning. Then, it
became a habit. After each question he finished, he looked at the girl’s paper.
He wanted to make sure he got them right. When his answer did not match
the girl’s, he changed his answer. He decided that she probably had the
correct answer since she was so smart. The paper came back with a 100.
However, Ezekiel’s guilt felt heavy in his chest. He didn’t earn that grade, so
he couldn’t be proud of himself for that.

A. Comprehension check:

1. What will be happening on Friday?

___________________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________________________

2. What is a study guide?

___________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

3. Why do you think Ezekiel was not confident in taking the exam?
__________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________
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B. Directions: Based on the story, think about the connections you can make
to the text. Choose only one phrase in each column below by putting a √
inside the square. Then, complete the sentence of your chosen square. You
may ask help with somebody, to guide you.

Text-to-Self Connection Text-to-Text Text-to-World

Connection Connection

I can connect to the The characters in This story reminds

story because the story reminds me me of when I heard
____________ of those in the story _________ on the news.
___________ that I The issue of
This story reminds read. the character faced is
me of the time I The story has the similar the real world
_____________ theme of ________ issue of ___________.
which is similar to the When ________
When the Character story of _____. happened in the story,
__________, I thought of The problem of I thought of
_________________________ this story, which was ______________. (
________, reminded me current event to
of the problem in the community or world)
story _____.

Write your sentences here:

1.
__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

2.
__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

3.
__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

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Directions: Express what you have learned in this lesson by completing the
missing words in the sentences below.

Connection to Text-to-Self helps you in deeper (1) _____________________

of the
(2) _______________________. It is connecting your (3)___________________
experiences to the text.

text personal understanding

Connection to Text-to-Text is a connection between a text and another

(4) _________________, movies or (5) _________________. It is also

(6) ___________________ big ideas and themes across the text.

text connecting songs

Connection to Text-to-World can be presented in a reading response

essay,
(7) _________________, or (8) ____________________ art format. It is also

(9) ______________________real (10) _________________happening to text.

visual connecting letter world

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Share and Connect
Directions: Share your thoughts in the story that you have read. Then,
be creative in illustrating it by a graphic organizer. Connect text to
yourself, another text and to the world.

Rubric for Graphic Organizers - Inspiration Diagrams/Concept Maps

(1) Unsatisfactory
CATEGORY (5) Exemplary (3) Proficient

Arrangement Main concept easily Main concept easily Main concept not
of Concepts identified; sub- identified; most clearly identified;
concepts branch sub-concepts sub-concepts don’t
appropriately from branch from main consistently branch
main idea idea. from main idea.

Links and Linking lines connect Most linking lines Linking lines not
Linking Lines related terms/point connect properly; always pointing in
in correct direction; most linking words correct direction;
linking words accurately describe linking words don’t
accurately describe the relationship clarify relationships
relationship between between concepts; between concepts;
concepts; hyperlinks most hyperlinks hyperlinks don’t
effectively used effectively used. function or fail to
enhance the topic.

Graphics Graphics used Graphics used Graphics used

appropriately; greatly appropriately most inappropriately and
enhance the topic of the time; most excessively; graphics
and aid in graphics selected poorly selected and
comprehension; are enhance the topic, don’t enhance the
clear, crisp and well are of good quality, topic; some graphics
situated on the page. and are situated in are blurry and ill-
logical places on the placed.
page.

Content Reflects essential Reflects most of the Contains extraneous

information; is essential information; is not
logically arranged; information; is logically arranged;
concepts succinctly generally logically contains numerous
presented; no arranged; concepts spelling and
misspellings or presented without grammatical errors.
grammatical errors too many excess
words; fewer than
three misspellings
or grammatical
errors.

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 Text Easy to read/ Most text is easy to Font too small to
appropriately sized; read; uses no more read easily; more
no more than three than four different than four different
different fonts; fonts; amount of fonts used; text
amount of text is text generally fits amount is excessive
appropriate for intended audience. for intended
intended audience; audience.
boldface used for
emphasis.

Design Clean design; high Design is fairly Cluttered design; low

visual appeal; four or clean, with a few in visual appeal;
fewer symbol shapes; exceptions; diagram requires a lot of
fits page without a lot has visual appeal; scrolling to view
of scrolling; color four or fewer entire diagram;
used effectively for symbol shapes; fits choice of colors lacks
emphasis. page well; uses visual appeal and
color effectively impedes
most of time. comprehension.

https://www2.uwstout.edu/content/profdev/rubrics/inspirationrubric.html

Directions: Read each statement carefully. Try to fill in the blanks with
related personal experience based on the given connections.

 Self: “I can connect to the happy child on the front cover. I remember
when ____________________________.”
 Text: “I can connect the story Hansel and Gretel about having a cruel
stepmother. I remember the story about ___________________________.”
 World: “I can connect the news about the dilemma of the Philippine
Frontliners. I remember the news about ___________________________.”

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10. World 5. Songs

Answers vary 9. Connecting 4. Text
Activities 8. Visual 3. Personal
Additional 7. Letter 2. Text
Answers vary 1. Understanding 6. Connecting Answers vary
What I Can Do What I Have Learned What’s More

Movies
Newspaper Characters
Current Events Articles School
Internet Textbooks Own ideas
Travels Poems Own thoughts
Television Story books Family
Text to the World Text to Text Text to Self
What’s New
10. C 5. D
9. B 4. B
8. B 3. A
7. A 2. C
Answer vary 6. C 1. C
What’s In What I Know

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