Text-to-world connections involve relating the text to what?

• A. The author’s biography
• B. Publication date
• C. Real-world events or issues
• D. Character names

Answer: (C)

Text-to-world connections relate what you read to real-world events or issues. This helps you see how a story or article reflects, comments on, or echoes things happening outside the text, like current news, social debates, or everyday problems. For example, a story about drought can connect to real discussions about climate change, water policy, or environmental concerns. The other options miss that broader outside context: an author’s biography is about the writer, not external events; the publication date is about when the work was created; and character names are part of the story’s internal world. So the best fit is linking to real-world events or issues.