Year 10 - English
Developing reading skills by responding to Murakami's 'After Dark'
Fiction: read around the world
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Unit Summary
In this unit, pupils read extracts from four novels from around the world, and use them to develop their narrative writing. In particular, pupils explore writers' use of structure. At the end of the unit, pupils consider their own use of paragraphs for effect and write an engaging narrative.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to apply effective reading skills to an unseen fiction text.
Key Notes
- We can use context to help us make predictions about the text.
- We can use other words in the sentence to help us clarify meaning of words or sentences you do not understand.
- Considering the questions that arise as we read and looking for hints at the answers, deepens our understanding.
- To demonstrate our comprehension, we need to be able to summarise what we have read.
- Picking out relevant quotes can demonstrate our comprehension of a text.
Vocabulary To Learn
- comprehend: to understand something completely
- decode: to discover the meaning of
- context: background information that helps something to be fully understood
- perspective: a point of view
- genre: a style or category of art, music or literature
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- When we read something for the first time, we are able to take in all of the important information.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain this English learning goal in two key points.
We can use context to help us make predictions about the text. We can use other words in the sentence to help us clarify meaning of words or sentences you do not understand.
2. Define this language term and use it in a sentence. 'comprehend'
to understand something completely.
3. Correct this common English misunderstanding.
Mistake: When we read something for the first time, we are able to take in all of the important information. Correction: We may need to read something over and over again to fully comprehend it. Using active reading strategies can also help us to fully engage with a new text.
More Lessons In This Unit
- 'After Dark': exploring Murakami's extended metaphor Study Guide
- 'After Dark': selecting evidence to support language analysis Study Guide
- 'Suite Française': evaluating ideas about a writer's craft Study Guide
- 'Suite Française': forming opinions on fiction Study Guide
- 'The Cellist of Sarajevo': expressing a personal and critical response to a text Study Guide
- Analysing images of hope and destruction in Galloway's 'The Cellist of Sarajevo' Study Guide
- Analysing Saramago's use of structural devices in 'Blindness' Study Guide
- Crafting an engaging narrative Study Guide
- Emulating Murakami's craft to write a descriptive opening Study Guide
- Emulating Saramago's use of structure in 'Blindness' Study Guide
- Exploring and emulating Galloway's use of symbols in 'The Cellist of Sarajevo' Study Guide
- Exploring structure in Murakami's 'After Dark' Study Guide
- Exploring the use of time in Galloway's 'The Cellist of Sarajevo' Study Guide
- Structuring paragraphs effectively in creative writing Study Guide
- Using inversion and asyndeton to craft interesting sentence structures Study Guide
- Using onomatopoeia and alliteration to craft interesting sound imagery Study Guide
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