Paper 1 Reading Section A

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Paper 1 Reading Section A
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Assessment Objective

• To read with insight and engagement, making
  appropriate references to texts and developing
  sustaining interpretations of them

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How questions are marked

• BASIC
• Mainly copied from the text showing little
  evidence of understanding.
• BETTER
• Clear attempt to answer the question
• some of the original text retained
• Structured response
• BEST
• Clear and detailed
• Fully shaped and absorbed

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Reading Assessment Objectives are all AO2s
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Have a go.AO2i Work out the meaning.

• A concept map is a hierarchical diagram to
  represent a set of ideas. By placing ideas in
  order of importance in this way, the reader is
  keyed in to what is most significant and what is
  least.
• In your own words, say what a hierarchy is.

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Identifying the key features in a text - Checklist

• Read the entire text
• Identify the writers purpose and intended
  audience
• Identify the points in each paragraph
• Reread the text to make sure you have not missed
  anything.

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Student on US crime spree

• Reading with Insight
• In pairs discuss the following
• Did you feel the article was a serious one?
• Was it written because the information was
  unusual
• Was the writer trying to argue a point or was he
  intending to inform and entertain?
• What kind of person do you think would enjoy
  reading this?

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Your own reading with insightStudent on US crime
spree

• Read the text again closely and highlight the
  main points being made.
• In your own words list the main points of the
  article in the correct order.
• Be prepared to feedback to the class

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Assessing your own progress

• Where you able to identify audience?
• Purpose?
• Form?
• Could you list the main points in the article?
  Grade F-E
• Could you list the main point of the article
  using some of your own words? Grade D
• Could you list the main points in the article
  using your own words? Grade C and above.
• Set yourself a target to be able to answer an
  examination question that asks you to pick out
  the main points.

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Which points did you identify?

• Tick the points that you identified on the
  worksheet