Expressing a personal and critical response to a text
I can express a personal and critical response to a text.
Expressing a personal and critical response to a text
I can express a personal and critical response to a text.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- In order to evaluate, we should form a personal and critical response to the text.
- To form a personal response, we can reflect on how a text made us feel, what stood out and what we like/dislike.
- Each reader can form a different opinion on the same part of a text.
- We can use superlatives to help us express our judgements on a text.
- We can use tentative language to express that our opinions are ideas, not facts.
Common misconception
Students may think that being critical means to talk about the negative aspects of something.
We can be critical by judging something positively or negatively.
Keywords
Evaluative - to be evaluative is to judge something carefully
Critical - being critical means judging the quality of something
Superlative - a word to express the highest or lowest quality of something
Tentative - expressing possibility rather than certainty
Equipment
You will need access to Chapter 1 from 'The Cellist of Sarajevo' for this lesson.
Content guidance
- Depiction or discussion of upsetting content
- Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering
Supervision
Adult supervision recommended
Licence
This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2024), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0 except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).
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