Generate excitement and focus amongst your students with imaginative and original starter activities!
- Wide range of useful vocabulary for students to learn and relate to existing knowledge
- Encourages students to think laterally about how words and phrases shape meaning
- Fully cross-referenced to reading objectives of the KS3 national curriculum
- All instructions and answers included
- 25 activities for each text!
|Activity Type||Part 1: Recognition Games||Part 2: Discussion Activities|
|Quote Hunt||A quotation is revealed word by word. Students will aim to
identify the full quotation and which character it is spoken
|Students explore the meaning of a key word from the quotation in terms of a) the whole play, and b) the quotation itself.|
|Fade Out||Students try to memorise jumbled words from a quotation and put them in the right order.||Students explore the meaning of a key word both in and
outside of the context of the quotation.
|Tone of Voice||Students identify the appropriate tone of voice for the quotation given.||Students work in pairs speaking the lines aloud, thinking about tone of voice, body language and dramatic pauses.|
|Wipe Out||Students identify which 6 out of 12 quotations are spoken by a particular character.||Students explore and analyse one of the quotations in detail.|
|WordPics||Students have to identify the missing word in a quotation
using one of three picture clues.
|Students consider why the playwright chose the identified
word rather than another.
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