ESL Reading Comprehension + Writing Activity Worksheets - BTS - KPop

- Grades
- Grades 7–9
- Pages
- 3
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- ELA, Reading Comprehension, Writing
- Topic
- BTS, K-pop
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Standards
- CCSS.RI.8.1 W.8.1
Product description
From the author
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.
In the classroom
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.
Good to know
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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