Headstarts: one hundred original pre-text activities

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Are you about to start a new story with your junior class? Or are you planning to read newspaper articles with your adult students, or maybe a play or a poem? Whatever the text, Headstarts provides an original lead-in.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Index of Activities
• Introduction
• General Techniques
• 1 Just a Few Chosen Lines
• 2 Perceive and Ponder
• 3 See, Select, and Suggest
• 4 Words, Words, and a Bit More Than Words
• 5 Write It Right
• 6 Poetic Pretexts
• 7 Naming Is Taming
• 8 Talk to the Text
• 9 Two Heads Are Better Than One
• 10 Puzzling It out
• Bibliography
• Further Reading
• Index of Text Types
• Index of Topics