Levels 3-4 English: Reading for Understanding, Analysis and Evaluation Skills

About this book

This book brings together the essential close reading skills needed by students taking part in the Broad General Education, Levels 3-4 (in S1 to S3). Split into two parts, the first section uses examples, models and active-learning tasks to teach key concepts of reading for understanding, analysis and evaluation. The second section provides 15 practice assessments, based on a variety of fiction and non-fiction texts, which become progressively more challenging. As well as allowing learners to demonstrate BGE reading skills, this section serves as a useful precursor to the style of assessment encountered later on at National levels. This book will help students to develop their close reading abilities, understand the distinction between key ideas and supporting details, and analyse writers' language and style via a broad range of sample texts.