Title of Close Reading Text: Weird and wacky sports
Learning Intention: I can investigate the use of a humorous tone in an information text.
Success Criteria:
I can discuss the way humour is used as a literary device in an information text.
I can identify the use of devices such as puns to develop a humorous tone.
I can list specialist technical terms related to each sport in the text.
Reading Text-Dependent Questions
1st Reading
What it says.
Key ideas and details
2nd Reading
How it says it.
Craft and Structure
What are the weird and wacky sports covered in this text?
What do you think was the author’s intention in choosing these particular sports?
How does the choice of sports set a humorous tone?
Can you identify ‘specialist technical terms’ used for each sport? (‘flicking off’, ‘gnarly’, ‘muggles’)
What literary device is the author using by listing these terms? (irony)
How do visual features add to the meaning and effect of the text?
Outcome:
EN3-RECOM-01
EN3-UARL-02
3rd Reading
What it means.
Language features, sentence structures, visual components, text cohesion, repetitions devices
How does the use of cartoon characters add to the humorous tone of the text?
EN3-VOCAB-01
EN3-UARL-02
EN3-UARL-02
EN3-RECOM-01
The School Magazine and language features.
What examples of humour can you find in the text? (Dropbears, ‘many other compe tors nipping at her heels’)
General follow up questions for each of the readings: