When students connect information from a news report to the text that they are reading, the connection they are making is a text-to-world connection. This means that the ideas of the text are being compared to the information that the student has about the real world. This will lead the student to think of how the events of the text are similar or different to the events of real life. He might also think of how the text he is reading can be connected to the world that surrounds him.
