As one attempts to relate a text to our knowledge of the world there are three questions one might ask oneself each related to a different connection with the text.
First, Text-to-self . A possible question might be “Has something like this ever happened to me?”
Second,Text-to-text. A possible question might “Have I read about something like this before?”
Third, Text-to-world. A possible question might be “How is this text similar to things that happen in the real world?”