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5.2.1 Intensive Reading
English · Grade 10 · 4 lessons in the design
What this covers
- Intensive reading for close understanding
- Reading for explicit and implicit meaning
- Inference and drawing conclusions
- Vocabulary in context
- Reading official documents carefully
What you will be able to do
- read a text closely for detailed understanding
- distinguish explicit from implicit information
- draw justified inferences from a text
- work out the meaning of unfamiliar words from context
Key questions
“How do you work out what a text implies but does not say?”
Lessons
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Explicit and implicit meaning
40 min · 2 practice tasks · quizWhat a text says, what it means, and the difference between inference and guessing.
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Working out words from context
40 min · 2 practice tasks · quizGetting the meaning of an unfamiliar word without stopping to look it up.
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Reading an official notice
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizFinding what is compulsory, what is optional, and what a job or school circular does not say.
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Close reading a career text
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizPutting inference, context vocabulary and official force together on one advert or circular.