We have talked about how readers activate their schema by making personal connections with experiences, feelings or relationships that are presented in a story. Another way to make connections is to think about texts by the same author, or texts on the same topic or theme, or books in the same genre. Making these kind of connections helps us to predict what to expect or understand what to pay attention to. For example, when I read Cynthia Rylant's The Relatives Came, the students soon made a connection with When Lightening Comes in a Jar and predicted that we will see the people eating, playing, taking pictures, and telling stories. Sure enough the games and food came. Knowing that in a picture book the illustrations can give us additional details, we saw that the pictures were taken in a story, even though it was never mentioned in words.
The following day I read Fireflies by Julie Brinkloe, another connection with When Lightening Comesin a Jar. Catching the fireflies was a similar event, but the way it started and ended was different. This showed that we have to adjust and change our schema as we read on.
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