Junior Cycle First Year English: Reading Between the Lines Teaching Unit

This unit of work is focused on developing the skills of reading between the lines and is based around extracts from the novel ‘Deep Water’ by Ann Turnbull. It is aimed at a first year Junior Cycle class and covers key skills such as inference and deduction, questioning the text, prediction and visualising the text. All short extracts are provided so you do not need a copy of the novel though you may wish to buy one to read and enjoy other sections with the class. I have included a 47 slide teaching PPT, all nine resources in word and pdf formats and a detailed set of teacher’s notes.

Learning outcomes (from Junior Cycle Specification) addressed in this unit include:
Reading
3. Use a wide range of reading comprehension strategies appropriate to texts e.g to retrieve information and to link to previous knowledge.
7. Select key moments from their texts and give thoughtful value judgements on the main character or a key scene.
8. Read their texts to understand and appreciate language enrichment by examining an author’s choice of words.
11. Identify and comment on features of English at word and sentence level using appropriate terminology.
Writing
3. Write for a variety of purposes e.g to imagine, explore, narrate.

I hope you enjoy teaching the unit.