1. Types of reading question
Locating and retrieving/what evidence does the writer use…
Explain
Impressions
Viewpoint and attitude/thoughts and feelings
Intended audience (who)
Analysis of persuasive technique (how)
Writing about 2 texts

2. Locating and retrieving/what evidence does the writer use…
Read question carefully
Work through text methodically – highlight/underline
Make your points in your answer in this order too
Use only relevant points
Give more examples than asked (if time)
If it says ‘list,’ list; if it doesn’t, don’t

3. Explain Stay in sequence Use short, embedded quotations Inference
Use your own words
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4. Impressions
Try to make about 4/5 separate points – there will be more than one impression to comment on – use your own words to describe the impresssion
Work through the text methodically
Use the wording of the question in your answer
Use short quotations to illustrate points
Explain how the impression is created through language i.e. negative or positive vocabulary
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5. Viewpoint and attitude/thoughts and feelings
Answer the question
Try to make about 5 clear, separate points
Support points with short embedded quotations
Explain how the attitude is revealed through language
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6. Intended audience (who)
Find more than one audience (4 or 5)
Comment on primary audience first and then secondary audiences
Do not say it is for ‘everyone’!!
Use evidence to support your ideas
Explain how the text targets
the audience –
presentation and language
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7. Analysis of persuasive technique (how)
MOVE FROM LONG-SHOT TO CLOSE-UP
Tone (formal/informal, serious/light-hearted, sarcastic, ridiculing, humorous, colloquial/conversational)
Tactics (scare, shock, appeals to sense of ambition, snobbery, better nature, self-image)
Techniques: CRAPPSFOREST (counter-argument, rhetorical questions, anecdote, first, second, third person pronouns, imperatives, lists and triples, simile/metaphor, adjectives, degree adverbs, senses, negative or positive vocab, statistics, facts and opinions, exaggeration, emotive, structure
Presentational features
Explain the effect on the reader of each device you mention

8. Writing about 2 texts Use the headings Read the question carefully
This question requires clarity of thought and organisation – stand back and
see the big picture (long-shot)
Avoid personal views

9. TIMING Use your time carefully
1 hour to read 2 texts and answer 4 questions:
10mins reading
12 mins per question (x4)
2 mins checking