Text Starters for Junior Secondary Students

Text Starters provides black line masters for 20 lessons, of approximately 15 minutes each, suitable for junior secondary students. These may be used at the start of a lesson while students are getting settled down, or whenever there are a few spare minutes during a lesson

The texts include fiction, non-fiction, literary and non-literary texts. Each is accompanied by ideas and activities for the teacher. 

Text Starters is a practical book which can be used

• for a positive start to a lesson
• as an activity within a lesson
• to encourage interactive teaching and learning
• as examples of complete texts and extracts
• for self starters for individual students
• to link to the main part of the lesson
• by relieving teachers