After reading the excerpt, Ricardo made a text-to-text connection. Which example is a text-to-text
connection?
Ricardo read this excerpt from A Black Hole Is NOT a
Hole by Carolyn Cinami DeCristofano.
Discoveries of black holes exploded in the late 1900s
and early 2000s. What scientists found reads like a
cast of characters for a mixed-up fairy tale. First they
discovered the small ("Baby Bear") black holes, then
the giant "Papas." But where were the medium "Mama
Bear" black holes? It just didn't make sense that there
would be smalls and larges but no mediums.
Astronomers began the search, and found them.
There's just one size that still hasn't been found, even
though it has been predicted. The tiniest of all, the
"Tom Thumbs" of the black-hole world, have yet to be
discovered if they even exist.
Ricardo had read a children's story with a character
named "Tom Thumb," so he understood the author's
description of the tiniest" black holes.
Ricardo had watched a video about big discoveries
in space, so he had some background information
on the subject of the excerpt.
While reading the excerpt, Ricardo remembered
playing a game when he was a child that had a
"Papa Bear," "Mama Bear," and "Baby Bear."
While reading the excerpt, Ricardo remembered
hearing about black holes in school, and it made him
interested to learn more.