Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Didactics - English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, grade: sehr gut, University of Hamburg (Fachbereich Erziehungswissenschaften), course: Proseminar Einführung in die Englisch-Didaktik, language: English, abstract: Creative approaches to textual work play an important role in EFL1 lessons as they offera great potential with regard to developing language skills and intercultural learning andas they are very popular among pupils. In terms of the negative results of PISA, theapproach to reading comprehension has immensely changed. Didactics have found outthat tackling (literary) texts in the traditional way hardly motivates learnes to achievegood results. Therefore, it is more useful to centre topics and literary texts which havesignificance for the learners, treat them in a different way and employing new methods,such as reading different texts in the English lessons (for example "Harry Potter") andapplying creative writing. Reading,writing, learning English should make sense to thepupils. "ESL2/EFL learners need a reason to read."3 Fortunately, these changes areeven visible in the current curricula guidelines.In my term paper, I will lay the focus on pre-, while- and post-reading-activities withregard to literature. Firstly, I will present the aims and advantages of while- and postreading-activities, then I will carry out a practical approach by suggesting a short story("Peter's Beach") and presenting some post-reading-activities and discussing them.[...]