IB English B TEXT TYPES SKILLS SUPPORT LESSON: How to Hook Your Reader SWIRL LESSON

TEXT TYPES 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 dictation, 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.

Activities:

1. Activity 1 SENTENCE UNSCRAMBLER STARTER: to article the function of effective hooks by unscrambling a definition sentence.
2. Activity 2 DICTOGLOSS: to correctly transcribe an example of an effective hook by listening to an audio track. After 4 listening opportunities, they will then check for grammatical and spelling accuracy by marking their work to see how much they scored out of 40.
3. Activity 3 RUNNING DICTATION: to aim for grammatical accuracy and precision by remembering, repeating and transcribing 5 different examples of effective hooks. This is a timed, highly-competitive activity that allows students to practise SWIRL. They will also then determine the type of hook example, the text type it refers to and the theme it relates to.
4. Activity 4: DISCUSSION TASK : to discuss how hooks can be used for a variety of text types and themes.
5. PLENARY: to express their knowledge of hooks through a precise application.
6. HOMEWORK: To research hooks not covered in this lesson.

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.)

You can use this resource as a standalone lesson, or combine it with the other two HOW TO WRITE EFFECTIVE HOOKS lessons:

• LISTENING LESSON:
In this lesson, students use a listening lesson audio and listening comprehension (with exam-style questions) to learn about the purpose of effective hooks, 5 different types of hooks, and examples of how they can be used. They then create a mind map collating everything they have learned for use when writing and revising. Ideal for both SL and HL classes.

• WRITING LESSON:
In this lesson, students create a variety of sentence frames using hook mentor sentences and then use those frame to practise writing 5 different hooks for 5 separate text types. They then get to compete and vote on the most effective hooks written by each other. Ideal for both SL and HL classes.