Pre-and Post Reading Exercises

Welcome to Class!

Before we start, please do the following:

1. Sit in your assigned seatings

2. Open your Inspire English E-book to page 162

3. Prepare a Jamboard/Miro/ Canva Whiteboard for discussion and activities

4. Open your Google Classroom and click on D1.6 [ACTIVITY] Quizizz

ENGLISH GRADE 9

Open Ended

What is something someone said that encouraged you today?

Open Ended

What is something that made you proud lately?

Essential Question

How do writers and speakers use vocabulary choice to give precise information and/or control the reader's response to it?

ENGLISH GRADE 9

Think/Pair/Share

In a few moments, you will see a series of questions. As you see each question, please take 20 seconds to think before answering.

In pairs, share and compare your answers. Write your observations in D1.7 Pre-reading Questions.

ENGLISH GRADE 9

Think/Pair/Share

What do you already know about this topic? How did you learn it?

ENGLISH GRADE 9

Think/Pair/Share

What do you already know about this topic? How did you learn it?What do you think will be the main topic of this text?

taken directly from: https://www.pembrokepublishers.com/data/ff/Focus%20on%20Reading.pdf

Think/Pair/Share

What do you already know about this topic? How did you learn it?

What do you think will be the main topic of this text?

Does the topic of this text remind you of something you have previously heard or seen?

taken directly from: https://www.pembrokepublishers.com/data/ff/Focus%20on%20Reading.pdf

Think/Pair/Share

What do you already know about this topic? How did you learn it?

What do you think will be the main topic of this text?

Does the topic of this text remind you of something you have previously heard or seen?

Do you think you will find this text interesting? Explain why.

taken directly from: https://www.pembrokepublishers.com/data/ff/Focus%20on%20Reading.pdf

Think/Pair/Share

What do you already know about this topic? How did you learn it?

What do you think will be the main topic of this text?

Does the topic of this text remind you of something you have previously heard or seen?

Do you think you will find this text interesting? Explain why.

What do you hope the author will tell you that you don’t already know?

taken directly from: https://www.pembrokepublishers.com/data/ff/Focus%20on%20Reading.pdf

Think/Pair/Share

What do you already know about this topic? How did you learn it?

What do you think will be the main topic of this text?

Does the topic of this text remind you of something you have previously heard or seen?

Do you think you will find this text interesting? Explain why.

What do you hope the author will tell you that you don’t already know?

In what ways do you think this information will be similar to or different from your own experience with this subject?

taken directly from: https://www.pembrokepublishers.com/data/ff/Focus%20on%20Reading.pdf

POST-READING QUESTIONS

Think/Pair/Share

In a few moments, you will see a series of questions. As you see each question, please take 20 seconds to think before answering.

In pairs, share and compare your answers. Write your observations in D1.7 Pre-reading Questions.

Think/Pair/Share

What did you think was the most difficult part of this selection?

taken directly from: https://www.pembrokepublishers.com/data/ff/Focus%20on%20Reading.pdf

Think/Pair/Share

What did you think was the most difficult part of this selection?

What part of the story do you still find a little confusing?

taken directly from: https://www.pembrokepublishers.com/data/ff/Focus%20on%20Reading.pdf

Think/Pair/Share

What did you think was the most difficult part of this selection?

What part of the story do you still find a little confusing?

In one sentence, summarize the story.

taken directly from: https://www.pembrokepublishers.com/data/ff/Focus%20on%20Reading.pdf

Think/Pair/Share

What did you think was the most difficult part of this selection?

What part of the story do you still find a little confusing?

In one sentence, summarize the story.

From whose perspective have we heard the story? How would the story change if a different character were telling the story?

How is Extract A's vocabulary different from Extract B's?

taken directly from: https://www.pembrokepublishers.com/data/ff/Focus%20on%20Reading.pdf

Open Ended

In Extract A, Caesar describes the Britons using the following vocabulary:

civilised | terrifying | fierce | brutally | courageously

Which vocabulary words could you categorise as "violent"?

Open Ended

In Extract A, Caesar describes the Britons using the following vocabulary:

civilised | terrifying | fierce | brutally | courageously

Which vocabulary words could you categorise as "admirable"?

Open Ended

In Extract B, Herodian describes the Britons using the following vocabulary:

savages | mark their bodies | covered in filth | blood-thirsty | warlike

Which vocabulary words could you categorise as "aggressive"?

Open Ended

In Extract B, Herodian describes the Britons using the following vocabulary:

savages | mark their bodies | covered in filth | blood-thirsty | warlike

Which vocabulary words could you categorise as "unsophisticated"?

Poll

Which extract gives the reader a fairer and less-biased impression of Britons?

• Extract A

• Extract B

Open Ended

Which extract gives the reader a fairer and less-biased impression of Britons? Write one or two sentences explaining your answer.