Exam Board: SQA
Level: S1-S3
Subject: English
First Teaching: September 2013
First Exam: June 2014

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
- analyse writers' language and style via a broad range of sample texts.

This book is aimed at children in secondary school. This reading book uses the phonics method. This approach concentrates on teaching children how to map between sounds and spellings, allowing them to decode written words into their constituent sounds. Phonics skill thus involves being able to split the written word 'cat' into the phonemes /k/, /a/, /t/, and to map from letter 'c' to phoneme /k/, from letter 'a' to phoneme /ae/ and from letter 't' to phoneme /t/. Decoding skill is useful when reading unfamiliar words which use regular spelling sequences.

There are 152 pages in this book. This is a study guide book. This book was published 2016 by Hodder Education .

Jane Cooper is Teacher and Annie Rayner is Principal Teacher of English at St Augustine's High School in Edinburgh.

This book has the following chapters:

• Introduction: iv
• Part One: Key Elements of Close Reading
• • Chapter 1: Understanding Ideas and Details
  • Chapter 2: Analysing Language and Style
• Part Two: Practice Assessments
• • Passages and Questions: 60
  • • 1: Your Rights as a Shopper
    • 2: Cream of the Crop
    • 3: A Great Escape
    • 4: The Lure of the Bike
    • 5: The Drummer Boy
    • 6: Komodo Dragons
    • 7: NeverSeconds Blogger Nearly Silenced
    • 8: What Milo Saw
    • 9: Arriving in Edinburgh
    • 10: The Streak
    • 11: The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow
    • 12: Blame My Brain
    • 13: Made in Scotland
    • 14: Message in a Bottle
    • 15: The Blood Bikers
• Answers: 106