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.