10. Reading strategies

Main idea

• A.1 Determine the main idea of a passage

Audience, purpose and tone

• B.1 Which text is most formal?
• B.2 Compare passages for subjective and objective tone
• B.3 Identify audience and purpose
• B.4 Compare passages for tone

Literary devices

• C.1 Identify the narrative point of view
• C.2 Interpret figures of speech
• C.3 Classify figures of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox
• C.4 Classify figures of speech: review
• C.5 Analyse the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone

Analysing literature

• D.1 Analyse short stories: set 1
• D.2 Analyse short stories: set 2

Analysing informational texts

• E.1 Analyse the development of informational passages: set 1
• E.2 Analyse the development of informational passages: set 2
• E.3 Trace an argument: set 1
• E.4 Trace an argument: set 2
• E.5 Analyse rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1
• E.6 Analyse rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 2