SKIMMING, A brief look at a text to work out what type it is and what it could be about, SCANNING, Reading through to find the main points and key information in a text, HIGHLIGHTING, Marking key bits of information to make them easier to find, ANNOTATING, Making little notes around a text with your analysis or questions you want answered, QUESTIONING, Why? The big question you should ask about the purpose or content of a text. What questions do you have about what you are being told?, HYPOTHESISING, Making an educated guess about aspects of a text or story and coming up with theories of your own about it., CLOSE READING, Reading a text very carefully to check details or to analyse parts of it in more deeply., READING BACKWARDS AND FORWARDS, Going back to parts of a text to revisit ideas or information and flicking forward to link/check you understand, INFERRING AND DEDUCING, Reading between the lines - what information is there in the text that you are not given outright?, ANALYSING, Exploring and explaining the meaning, purpose or impact of a text., T.A.P, Type. Audience. Purpose, TYPE/GENRE, Genre of text. Fiction/Non-Fiction. Advert/Article. Horror/Mystery etc., AUDIENCE, Who is the text aimed at? What sort of people?, PURPOSE, The writer's intention. What is the writer telling you? Why? What response does the writer want?

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