Learn: Text to Text
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A third way readers often make sense of and connect to texts is by comparing them to other texts.
Reading and analyzing two texts on the same topic, for example, might show you how different people feel about the same issue. Maybe you just read the last book in The Hunger Games film series, and it reminded you of a book you read in junior high called The Giver. Each book paints a very different picture of what our future world might be like, depending on the choices we make as a human race. Comparing these texts to one another can raise some interesting questions about what the best choices might be.
Text-to-text connections can get you thinking, too, about the effect different writers’ styles and techniques have upon you as a reader. Does the storyline in The Hunger Games feel more fast-paced and interesting than the storyline of The Giver? Why? Are the characters more memorable in one text than in the other? What have the writers done differently to impact you in such different ways?
Reading and analyzing two texts on the same topic, for example, might show you how different people feel about the same issue. Maybe you just read the last book in The Hunger Games film series, and it reminded you of a book you read in junior high called The Giver. Each book paints a very different picture of what our future world might be like, depending on the choices we make as a human race. Comparing these texts to one another can raise some interesting questions about what the best choices might be.
Text-to-text connections can get you thinking, too, about the effect different writers’ styles and techniques have upon you as a reader. Does the storyline in The Hunger Games feel more fast-paced and interesting than the storyline of The Giver? Why? Are the characters more memorable in one text than in the other? What have the writers done differently to impact you in such different ways?