Text-to-Self Connection Quiz Questions for Kindergarteners

📖 Quick Study Guide: Text-to-Self Connections

• 🧠 What is a Text-to-Self Connection? This is when you read something in a book or story and it reminds you of something that has happened in your own life, or something you've felt, or something you know.
• 💡 Why are they important? Making these connections helps you understand the story better! It makes the characters and events feel more real to you, and reading becomes more fun and meaningful.
• 🤔 How do Kindergarteners make these connections?
  • 🏡 Think about your home, family, or friends.
  • 🎈 Remember things you've done or experiences you've had.
  • 😄 Think about how you felt in different situations.
• 💬 Key Phrases to help: You might say, "This reminds me of...", "This is just like when I...", or "I felt that way too when...".

📝 Practice Quiz

Choose the best answer for each question:

1. 🧩 When you read a story about a character who loves to play with blocks, and you also love to play with blocks, what kind of connection are you making?
   A) Text-to-World
   B) Text-to-Self
   C) Text-to-Text
2. 🎂 If a story talks about a birthday party, and you remember your own birthday party, what are you doing?
   A) Thinking about math
   B) Making a text-to-self connection
   C) Looking at the pictures
3. 🐻 The story says a little bear felt sad when he lost his toy. If you felt sad when you lost your toy, you are connecting the story to...?
   A) Your friend's feelings
   B) Your own feelings
   C) A different book
4. ❓ Which question helps you make a text-to-self connection?
   A) "What is the main idea of the story?"
   B) "Does this remind me of something in my life?"
   C) "How many pages are in the book?"
5. 🍎 A character in the story loves to eat apples. If you also love to eat apples, you can say, "This reminds me of..."
   A) ...a movie I saw.
   B) ...my favorite fruit!
   C) ...a different animal.
6. 🏞️ When you read about a character visiting the park and you remember visiting your own park, you are using your...
   A) Imagination to invent a new story.
   B) Memory to connect to the story.
   C) Fingers to turn the page.
7. 🌟 Making a text-to-self connection helps you understand the story better because you can...
   A) Finish the book faster.
   B) See how the story relates to you.
   C) Count all the words.