Following the immense success of Close Reading 11-14, this Non-Fiction text has been written to provide further close reading exercises, specifically when dealing with non-fictional text. This text provides 15 extracts from a wide variety of publications with accompanying interpretation/comprehension-type questions.

Each chapter also features a section which focuses upon a particular language feature from the passage, giving further explanation as well as practice exercises on that aspect of language.

A version containng suggested answers is also available, 0 340 88923 3.

This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 96 pages in this book. This book was published 2005 by Hodder Education .

Mary Firth and Andrew Ralston are hugely successful authors of English books for Scotland. they both teach at Hutchesons' Grammar School.

This book has the following chapters: 1 Skateboarding - Jargon 2 The Living Dead - (1) Dictionary Work (2) Paragraphs 3 The Real James Bond - Informal Writing 4 The Nagging Parent - Apostrophes (1) 5 How Safe is the Food We Eat? - Apostrophes (2) 6 Five Shots that Killed John Lennon - Structure 7 The Other Olympics - Parenthesis 8 Secrets of the Picts - Dictionary Work 9 GBP89 million Boost for Scotland - Formal Writing 10 Cutting Spam out of your Mobile Diet - Linking Words 11 Citizens of the World - Discursive Writing 12 The Greatest Runner of All Time? - Italics 13 The Left-Handed Way - (1) Dashes and Hyphens (2) Shades of Meaning 14 Pocahontas - Punctuating a List 15 Is There Life Out There? - (1) Vocabulary (2) Structure