Junior Non-Fiction - Smart Clothes - E-Textiles
Smart clothes will soon be on sale. But regulations are needed to prevent a new waste mountain by Ian Williams is an interesting non-fiction article exploring the development of smart clothing and e-textiles, their potential benefits, and the environmental problems they could create. Using scientific evidence, statistics, real-world examples, and persuasive language, Williams considers technological innovation, sustainability, electronic and textile waste, regulation, and environmental responsibility.
This complete text study helps junior secondary students build their understanding of the text before moving into close analysis and critical thinking. No prep needed, editable, and ready to go.
This resource includes:
⭐ A student workbook.
⭐ An answer book.
You and your students will enjoy:
❤️ Context activities exploring Ian Williams, e-textiles, environmental science, textile waste, electronic waste, and the wider issues surrounding smart clothing.
❤️ Comprehension activities to build confidence with the text.
❤️ Includes genre, literary traditions, tropes, key ideas, different viewpoints, setting, structure, audience, perspective, writer's purpose, and important quotations.
❤️ Also covers tone and mood, language choices, and persuasive appeals, including ethos, pathos, and logos, and how Williams uses evidence to make his argument convincing.
❤️ Critical thinking activities that encourage students to consider human behaviour, technological progress, different literary lenses, and the wider relevance of Williams' ideas.
Formats:
🖥️ Microsoft PowerPoint, resized to an A4 page. This means your resource:
Is completely editable.
Will easily upload to your Google Drive if you prefer the Googley suite.
Is printable 📃
🖥️ A PDF version of each document.
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