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Daily Archives: 22nd August 2018
Daily Archives: 22nd August 2018
Helping students engage with and understand literature before they read is essential. One way to take the fear away from old-fashioned language or writing that is unfamiliar is to let students play with it before you read.
This pre-reading activity is deceptively simple. Here’s what you do:
It always amazes me how varied, interesting, and deep my students’ interpretations of these words are. Remember they have no idea what they are going to be reading. Yet students are able to see the depth in the language so much more easily when they only have a handful of words to deal with.
Here are a few examples of my student’s work: from Romeo and Juliet and the task above on The Drum!
If you try using this activity with your class, drop me a note in the comments to let me know how it went! You can see all my Literature resources here.
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