READING AND RESPONDING - the texts
1. Reading and Responding to Texts
This area of study focuses on the reading of a range of literary texts to develop critical and supported responses. Students examine the structures, features and conventions used by authors of a range of selected texts to construct meaning. They identify, discuss and analyse these in order to explain how meaning is constructed through textual elements such as language and images. They also examine the ways in which the same text is open to different interpretations by different readers; for example, the ways in which a text can be read differently in a different time, place or culture. In identifying and analysing explicit and implied values embodied in texts, students examine the ways in which readers or viewers are invited to respond to the texts. They describe and analyse the way in which social, historical and/or cultural values are embodied in texts. They develop and justify a detailed written interpretations of selected texts, using appropriate metalanguage.
This area of study focuses on the reading of a range of literary texts to develop critical and supported responses. Students examine the structures, features and conventions used by authors of a range of selected texts to construct meaning. They identify, discuss and analyse these in order to explain how meaning is constructed through textual elements such as language and images. They also examine the ways in which the same text is open to different interpretations by different readers; for example, the ways in which a text can be read differently in a different time, place or culture. In identifying and analysing explicit and implied values embodied in texts, students examine the ways in which readers or viewers are invited to respond to the texts. They describe and analyse the way in which social, historical and/or cultural values are embodied in texts. They develop and justify a detailed written interpretations of selected texts, using appropriate metalanguage.