Using a classic movie musical, and relying upon the popular method of lawrence richards, dr. Its not a fancy name but its a really helpful tool and so let me run through it. We were all kids in the youth group, and we were preparing to take over leadership responsibilities for youth sunday. Read more tagged bible study, ephesians, explore the bible, hook book look took. The use of a multisensory approach by appealing to the childrens sense of sight, sound, b. This lesson will teach you how to prepare a bible study or group discussion using a specific method called hook, book, look, took. Get the class attention focused on the lesson at hand with a relevant and interesting introduction. Teaching young learners hook, book, look, took herwindy m. The hook book look took method focuses on four main aspects of any group study.
A lifechanging lesson requires a few moments when the participants can respond. Richards, creative bible teaching, moody press, 1976. Creative bible teaching by richards and bredfeldt defines this four step process as the hookbooklooktook hblt method. Hook, book, look and took remain excellent handles for structuring, developing, delivering and evaluating a bible lesson. Its taken from this book called creative bible teaching. Chromey reveals how every great lesson will feature an engaging introduction, an indepth study of the. The second area of concentration needs to be the bible since you can not have a bible study without looking into gods word. Students then pass along their books to the person sitting next to them and repeat the process with the new book received content. You must first grab the students attention in order to introduce the lesson and lead them to want to be involved in the material. You must first grab the students attention in order to introduce the lesson and lead them to. Given this situation, we offer an alternative lesson plan framework, called the hook book look took hblt lesson structure which was originally developed by richards and bredfeldt 1998. 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.
Hook book look took sample lesson plan, methods and tools for teaching the bible 1. Hook, book, look, took bible study christian bible scribd. When i studied methods of bible teaching, richards book was hot off the press. The hook, look, book, took model is a pretty failsafe method that will. My wife, a professor of christian education for many years, used the text book.
Creative bible teaching by richards and bredfeldt defines this four step process as the. Larry richards created the teaching scheme hook, look, book, took and published it in 1970. Highlight things that relate to a passage in the bible, to biblical teaching andor jesus. It is a fourstep strategy that is particularly popular with sunday school teachers. The hook book look took the hook book look took hblt we stumbled on this lesson structure lesson structure lesson structure might be the answer. Hook use something from the young peoples world that they already relate to. The use of a multisensory approach by appealing to the childrens sense of sight. The hook, look, book, took model is a pretty failsafe method that will engage young people and show them a god who is relevant, interesting and interested in them. The hook t he hook strategy is a short opening into a lesson, that prepares the students for the upcoming material that they will be learning. It is a pattern that normally should be followed in most bible teaching situations. The hook book look took lesson structure petra christian.
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