Teaching analytical reading

Analytical reading. From the start, as we read, we will have been interpreting figurative effects and interpreting meaning (at whatever level of sophistication) - and if we then choose to think about the piece of writing critically, we will be analysing and assessing the figurative effects and the meaning.

Assembling. Finally, we will wish to make full sense of all that we have understood through the previous three stages by reviewing, revising, relating our impressions - we will think of assembling our ideas into some form of coherent model of the text. More specifically, if we are reading for a specific purpose (writing a critical study or researching for a report), we will have to think of assembling the model we have formed into some form of writing.