23TRA209 Teaching Prescribed Texts at Junior Cycle: The Outsiders, Trash and Sing Street.
Date: Monday, 20 March 2023
Time: 7pm to 8pm
Venue: Online via Zoom
In this webinar Claire will outline a prescribed text approach using a pre-reading, reading and post-reading structure. She will be looking in particular at The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Trash by Andy Mulligan and the popular film Sing Street.
The webinar will cover:
- Pre-reading approaches: looking at challenging vocabulary, knowledge organisers, pre-teaching literary techniques, discussion around themes and ideas
- Fast-Read: audiobooks, integrating grammar, whole class reading and plot comprehension
- Post-reading: focus on character, relationship, setting, techinques, themes and ideas.
- Preparing for the final assessment: studying for prescribed texts, model answers and modelling answers
Presenter Bio: Clare Madden

Clare Madden is a teacher of English and History at Glanmire Community College.
Course Details
| Course Start Date / Time | 20-03-2023 7:00 pm |
| Course End Date / Time | 20-03-2023 8:00 pm |
| Cut off date | 20-03-2023 7:15 pm |
| Available place | 1000 |
| Fee | Free |
| Number Hours | 1 |
| Speaker | Clare Madden |
| Location | Online |