Unfamiliar Texts - Activities - Games - Analysis
Packed with engaging activities, games, and analysis tasks, this resource is your one-stop-shop for teaching language features with depth and creativity. Students explore essential techniques through fun challenges, creative writing prompts, and thoughtful analysis of a wide range of text types, including fiction, non-fiction, lyrics, and speeches.
We’ve even included a handy Language Features List for quick reference. Best of all, it’s fully editable, so you can tweak it to suit your class. Suitable for years 10-13.
This resource includes:
⭐ Clear, student-friendly definitions and examples of commonly used language features
⭐ Interactive games and low-prep activities to reinforce learning
⭐ Creative writing and transformation challenges
⭐ Analysis tasks covering bias, persuasive techniques, and author’s purpose
⭐ A mix of individual, paired, and collaborative options
You and your students will enjoy:
❤️ Increased confidence in analyzing unfamiliar texts.
❤️ A wide variety of activities to suit different learning styles.
❤️ Ready-to-go lessons that save valuable planning time
❤️ Opportunities for creativity and critical thinking
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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✅ 1.4 Unfamiliar Texts Revision Pack
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✅ Check out our range of mini lessons for focused studies.
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Sharing/Copying this Resource
Feel free to purchase just one for your department - no need for a copy for each teacher. However:
- Please do NOT share with the school down the road.
- Please do NOT take it with you to a new school.
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Reviews
I was so impressed by the amount and range of activities here. I plan to use it as a weekly task to help with spaced retrieval for my Level One students. Thank you so much!
A very cool way to revise for something that could be quite tedious!! I turn everything into a competition, so I'm having fun too!!
An awesome resource which I can use to build on and consolidate learning already taught.