These four simple words were first introduced to me during my seminary days through a required reading book by lawrence richards, entitled creative bible teaching. My first mentor taught me this simple formula for structuring my teaching that ive used ever since. Another way to understand the hook, book, look, took approach is to picture it as a teacherled trip through time. The hook is best used at, but not limited to, the beginning of the first lesson of a topic. Chromey reveals how the wizard of oz forms a frame to develop a bible lesson or even sermonmessage. The four elements of a lifechanging lesson sunday school. But we are weak on the hook which leads to weakness with the took. Its an outline that you can use for preparing a talk, or a lesson, or a bible study, and its called. Tell a story, share a quote, ask a question, give them a sneak peak e. The hook strategy can be done in multiple ways and should be done with energy, producing a promising, encouraging outcome for your students.
The hook is important in drawing the listener into hearing from the text. This lesson discusses the hook and book components of a lesson planin other words, the lesson introduction, and the body of the lesson focusing on the bible content. The look or application time is to guide the group to grapple with a how the passage applies to their daily lives. The hook, a brief introduction designed to grab the learners attention. The book, an explanation of the text that guides the learner to grasp with the truth of scripture. It is a fourstep strategy that is particularly popular with sunday school teachers. Richards, creative bible teaching, moody press, 1976. Out of the introduction, raise a common need in the hearers so that it begins to address. Using the hook book look took and the scope methods to deliver the lesson. You must first grab the students attention in order to introduce the lesson and lead them to. When i studied methods of bible teaching, richards book was hot off the press. Grasp the truth by gary bearce wednesday, january 19th, 2011 hook, book, look and took remain excellent handles for structuring, developing, delivering and evaluating a bible lesson.
Oct 21, 2014 thank you for this explanation of this teaching method. My wife, a professor of christian education for many years, used the text book. Teaching effectively in ministry situations understanding hook, book, look, took purpose. The teacher will tie in the significance of the minilesson with their writing assignment and creating the hook in the stories that the students are writing discussion independent practice. Teaching young learners hook, book, look, took herwindy m. Get the class attention focused on the lesson at hand with a relevant and interesting introduction. It is a pattern that normally should be followed in most bible teaching situations. Hook, book, look, took herwindy m tedjaatmadja and willy a renandya keep it simple. The book centers around a general lesson outline dubbed. This is where we introduce and prepare the students affectively, cognitively and also linguistically for the main part of the.
These four simple words were first introduced to me during my seminary days through a required reading book by lawrence richards, entitled creative bible. It should be an exercise that smoothly leads into the lesson, but the hook should not teach the lesson. Its easy to remember and contains all the elements for a great bible lesson. They will use an appropriate hook to gain their readers attention. Therefore, it allows you to add applicationspecific cleanup processes. The hook book look took lesson structure herwindy m tedjaatmadja, petra christian university willy a renandya, national institute of education, nanyang technological university abstract the purpose of our talk is to introduce a fourstep lesson structure which is simple but flexible. In objectoriented programming, the template method is one of the behavioral design patterns identified by gamma et al. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading hook the untold stories of neverland book 2. The hook book look took lesson structure petra christian. Net ide to log every line of code executed while debugging and save it in a text file. No better material, no greater message is there in the world than that of the gospel. The template method is a method in a superclass, usually an abstract superclass, and defines the skeleton of an operation in terms of a number of highlevel steps. Catch the readers attention with a brief story or a.
Use something from the young peoples world that they already relate to. Ever since the look say method, or whole word instruction, took the place of phonics, the number of illiterate graduates has grown higher and higher. Using a classic movie musical, and relying upon the popular method of lawrence richards, dr. Indeed you have been concerned, but you had no opportunity to show it. Students may have different ideas for implementing what they have learned and thats good. Occasionally i will teach in my adult sunday school class but my methods seem to be hit or miss. Using lawrence richards famous hook, book, look and took method, this. Hblt bible teaching method effective teaching begins on your knees. In the took section you want each student to take away one practical idea for implementing the truth during the upcoming week.
Richard lawrence in his book, creative bible teaching came up with an easy template for building a lesson. Wayne prentice is a midlist author who must face the hard fact that the wo. Pray for the teaching ministry of the holy spirit in your class. Read more tagged bible study, ephesians, explore the bible, hook book look took, s. Im pretty sure the first time i ever heard hook, book, look, and took as an organizing principle for bible teaching was in high school. Nov 20, 2006 its no doubt in depth knowledge related article,i was looking for such thing.
In this post, i am going to talk about the book part of building a lesson. Apr 27, 2015 lets look at the hook method based on include. Larry richards created the teaching scheme hook, look, book, took and published it in 1970. The hook, look, book, took model is a pretty failsafe approach that will engage young people and show them a god who is relevant, interesting and interested in them. Jan 15, 2008 my observation is that we are strong on the book and the look. May god help us to manifest the method of the master as we teach.
You must first grab the students attention in order to. This lesson will teach you how to prepare a bible study or group discussion using a specific method called hook, book, look, took. Hookbook is a multiuser tractor and truck pull registration system. Capture the audiences attention from the very beginning. Hook, book, look and took remain excellent handles for structuring, developing, delivering and evaluating a bible lesson. Hook, book, look, took is a great tool for teachers. You will also find suggestions designed to help you to construct good questions to fit the hook book look took outline. Hooks methods in webdynpro for abap web dynpro abap. You must first grab the students attention in order to introduce the lesson and lead them to want. In creative bible teaching 1970, his hookbooklooktook approach, although still working out of a cognitive processing orientation, emphasizes through the hook that interest in the biblical material should not be assumed and that learner needs should be considered, and, through the took, that bible teaching is incomplete until. I need to incorporate the hook, book, look, took method and it will help me immensely.
Hook, book, look and took recommending a short, attention getting introduction, a biblical based lesson, it is written in an accessible style with a minimum of technical complexity, though it provides comprehensive tools for developing a competent method. Movement of the lesson proceeds from the present hook to the past book, back to the present look, and into the future took. My 4 step method for outlining sermons preaching donkey. I mingled with it briefly in bible college, but not enough to understand it. Hook, book, look, took bible study christian bible. Step description principles hook all good teachers understand the importance of this step, especially when working with young learners. And the hook helps to shape the takehome cashvalue took throughout the talk. There are several methods present in webdynpro for abap as a hook method. Wddopostprocessing this method is called in the last process step before rendering.
The hook, book, look, took method here is a 4step structure to help you maintain consistency and hold the readers attention. Hook, book, look, took bible study christian bible scribd. Hook use something from the young peoples world that they already relate to. We were all kids in the youth group, and we were preparing to take over leadership responsibilities for youth sunday. The hook book look took method focuses on four main aspects of any group study. Different type of hooks methods in webdynpro for abap.