Critical Reading

About Course

Live tutor led group lessons
1.5 hour per week

Self-study time
3-4 hour per week

Pass mark
60 %

Expected starting date:
Thursday 5th October

Karolina Orszulewska

Pupils will be assigned homework to complete.

The course price includes personalised tutor support, including individual assignment marking and feedback in addition to the tutor-led lessons.

Students improve their reading skills beyond basic reading comprehension, exploring concepts of explicit and implicit meaning, persuasion and inference in a variety of activities. They learn to compare texts and critically evaluate the language, spotting bias, use analytical skills and identify gist of a text to summarise it. With further work with written language, practising such skills as skimming, scanning and predictive reading, students develop the confidence to understand any text and approach it as an aware critical reader. The aim of the course is to gain advanced comprehension skills and learn how to use these tool every day to process and consciously consume the overwhelming abundance of true and false, neutral and manipulative information on media, social media, Internet and in advertisement. This course is also perfect as part of GCSE Language exam preparation, covering reading skills required by all main examining boards to achieve grade 4 and above.

Who should enrol on this course?
This course will help students who want to:

Improve their general reading skills and comprehension.
Work with a variety of texts with confidence.
Successfully navigate through the overwhelming amount of written information in every day life.
Develop love for reading.
Prepare for GCSE English language and Functional Skills reading exams.

Ideal for pupils in:

Key Stage 3 – Years 8 (high achievers) and 9
Key Stage 4 – Years 10 and 11 who want to achieve grades 4 and up in GCSE English
Key Stage 5 – Years 12 and 13 who are doing A-levels.
Functional Skills, especially at level 2.

Course Content

Topic 1. What is critical reading
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Diagnostic test 1
1.1. Basic reading skills and why they are important

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1.2 Skimming, scanning and predictive reading

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1.3. Critical reading in practice

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You as a reader

About Course

What Will You Learn?

Course Content

Diagnostic test 1

1.1. Basic reading skills and why they are important

1.2 Skimming, scanning and predictive reading

1.3. Critical reading in practice

You as a reader

Topic 2. Working with text to extract information and meaning

2.1. Implicit and explicit meaning

2.2. Reading for gist and summarising

Test your progress 1

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Topic 3. Interpreting and evaluatings texts as part of critical reading

3.1. Purpose, intent, audience and tone

3.2. Fact vs. opinion

3.3. Identifying bias and persuasion

3. 4. More on persuasive devices in language

Test your progress

Critical reader on social media

Topic 4. Close reading and critical analysis of texts

4.1. The power of language – language devices and vocabulary choices for effect

4.2. Working with multiple texts – synthesising information from more than one source

4.3. Working with multiple texts – compare and contrast

4.4. Comparing written sources as a critical reading in practice

Test your progress

TBC

Topic 5. Consolidate your reading practice

5.1. Further use critical reading skills in every day context

Reading project

End of course test