ESL Reading Comprehension + Writing Activity Worksheets - BTS - KPop

Explore BTS through an English reading about the group’s history and influence. Comprehension, vocabulary, and writing activities invite students to develop and explain their responses.
Grades
Grades 7–9
Pages
3
File type
PDF
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Updated Jul 19, 2025

Subject
ELA, Reading Comprehension, Writing
Topic
BTS, K-pop
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This three-page BTS resource supports intermediate and advanced ESL learners with an informational passage and 23 questions, including two vocabulary tasks and four true-or-false items requiring text evidence.

Three extended prompts offer an opinion essay, a comparison with another music group, or an imagined diary entry about spending a day with BTS. The opinion prompt includes an option for students who are not fans. Supply extra writing paper.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Extract factual details from an informational text, such as BTS's formation year and original musical genre.

  • Evaluate a claim against textual evidence, choosing true or false and justifying the answer from the passage.

  • Compose an extended opinion essay, comparison essay, or imaginative diary entry that draws on and extends ideas from the reading.

Teaching tips

  • Assign the four true/false items as a class discussion rather than independent seatwork, since each requires students to argue their answer from specific textual evidence.

  • Use the synonym and "stand out" vocabulary items as a warm-up before the comprehension questions, since both concepts recur throughout the passage.

  • Let students choose one of the three writing prompts rather than assigning all three, since each targets a different mode -- opinion, comparative, and narrative.

Skills covered

  • Informational reading comprehension -- students answer detail and inference questions about BTS's history, music, and global influence.

  • Text-based argumentation -- students evaluate true/false claims and justify their answer using evidence from the passage.

  • Extended writing -- students produce an opinion essay, a comparative essay, or a narrative diary entry connected to the reading.

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Questions teachers ask about this resource

How do the three writing prompts differ from each other?

Each targets a different mode: prompt one is a persuasive opinion essay about BTS's music, prompt two is a comparison essay contrasting another genuine music group with BTS, and prompt three is an imaginative diary entry about spending a day with the band.

What kind of evidence do the true/false questions expect?

Each of the four true/false items asks students to argue their answer directly from the reading passage rather than from outside knowledge, including one about whether "Dynamite" was BTS's first Korean-language U.S. number-one hit.

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Curriculum

Standards, concepts & topics

Standards

  • CCSS.RI.8.1 — Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
  • W.8.1

Core concepts

  • Reading comprehension

  • Text-based evidence

  • Vocabulary in context

  • Narrative and argumentative writing

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