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Session 2 Video

Session 2 introduces us the 4-step pattern: Hook, Book, Look, Took on how to teach children.

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- Opening Activity Idea:

  - Create the outline of a “perfect teacher” on a marker board

  - Ask volunteers to describe attributes of a teacher that made a positive impact on them as a child.

  - As they describe each aspect, write these words around the “perfect teacher”

- Preparation for video content or lead your volunteers in reviewing the four-step lesson approach (see handout)

  - Hook: Prepare children to learn from the Bible

  - Book: Teaching the Bible story

  - Look: Dig into scripture

  - Took: Applying scripture to our lives

  - Suggestions: 
    - Provide copies of the curricular materials used by your children’s ministry. 
    - Assist volunteers in identifying how the materials label each of these four steps.

  - Note: If your children’s ministry uses a large group/small group model, describe which steps you desire to be covered in large group and which should be covered in small group.

- Practice together:

  - Choose a Bible story (example: Jesus calming the storm)

  - Divide into small groups
    - Each group come up with 1-2 ideas for each of the four-step lesson approach

  - Share their ideas with the rest of the group

- Discussion:

  - Which step of the four-step approach comes easily to you? 

  - Which step of the four-step approach is a bit more difficult for you?

- Concluding Activity:

  - Share with your volunteers any additional resources you have to assist them in lesson preparation.

  - Identify the various gifts and talents of each volunteer in the room and affirm how God is using them to teach children the Word of God.


**(Handout)**

- Introduction:

- 4-step pattern: Hook, Book, Look, Took

- **HOOK**: Prepare children to learn from the Bible

  - Key concepts:

    - Grab their attention

    - Surfaces a need

- **BOOK**: Teaching the Bible story

  - Key questions:

    - What does this story/text teach us about God?

    - What is the main point of this story?

  - Be sure to emphasize what the story teaches about God!

- **LOOK**: Dig into the scripture

  - Key questions:

    - What did the scripture mean 2000+ year ago?

    - What does it mean for us today?

- **TOOK**: Apply scripture in our lives.

  - Key concept:

    - Discover together concrete actions to help us look more like Jesus

Review the curricular materials your children’s ministry uses and identify the elements of Hook, Book, Look, and Took.


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