IB English B Writing Skills: How to HOOK your reader: Mini-Bundle

3 Dynamic and highly-interactive lessons to teach IB students how to develop the skill of writing effective hooks to engage their readers. One way this bundle can be used is to provide the Listening Lesson to SL students; the SWIRL lesson to HL and the Writing Lesson to both SL and HL.

(Although, I only teach HL students and have successfully used all 3 lessons with them.)

1.TEXT TYPES SKILLS SUPPORT LISTENING LESSON: How to Write Effective Hooks
(60 minutes)

This lesson supports the writing of the following text types: Blogs, Speeches, Articles, Social Media Posts, Advertisements.

Resources:

1. No-prep, ready-made SLIDESHOW
2. Student WORKBOOK
3. Student Workbook ANSWER KEY
4. Audio Track

Lesson Outcome:
By the end of this lesson, your students will have practised listening skills to learn about 5 effective ways to hook their readers AND they will have made mind map notes for use when writing and revising.

1. TEXT TYPES SKILLS SUPPORT SWIRL LESSON: (Speaking, Writing, Interacting, Reading, Listening)

How to Write Effective Hooks
(60 minutes)

This lesson supports the writing of the following text types: Blogs, Speeches, Articles, Social Media Posts, Advertisements.

Resources:

1. No-prep, ready-made SLIDESHOW
2. SWIRL Resource Pack
3. Audio Track

Lesson Outcome:
By the end of this lesson, your students will have used sentence unscrambling, dictogloss, running dictogloss, and group discussion tasks to develop their understanding of hook writing. They will use a range of hook examples to understand how hooks can be used for different text types and English B themes.

1. TEXT TYPES SKILLS SUPPORT WRITING LESSON: How to Write Effective Hooks
   (60 minutes)

This lesson supports the writing of the following text types: Blogs, Speeches, Articles, Social Media Posts, Advertisements.

Resources:

1. No-prep, ready-made SLIDESHOW
2. Student Workbook

Lesson Outcome:
By the end of this lesson, your students will have created a variety of sentence frames using hook mentor sentences and then used those frames to practise writing 5 different hooks for 5 separate text types. They will also have competed with each other and voted on the most effective hooks written.

Apart from the need to print workbooks and a few bits of admin, this lesson is NO-PREP, INSTANTLY-USABLE.

(You just need to run through the slideshow to familiarise yourself with the lesson elements.)