Close Reading provides an opportunity for multiple readings of the same text, focusing on different textual elements such as key ideas, details, craft, structure, and language features, including vocabulary and grammatical analysis.

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Articles

Factual articles bring a diverse and accessible range of topics to life for our readers.

Fiction

Stories and storytelling encourage our readers to discover and engage with the world through words and illustrations

Plays

Our entertaining and easy-to-perform plays provide a huge range of opportunities for learning.

Persuasive

Persuasive texts aim to convince the reader of the strength of an argument or point of view through information, careful use of evidence, construction of argument, and ethos, pathos and logos, known as the rhetorical triangle.

Poems

Poetry carefully crafted to charm, intrigue, surprise and challenge, written by leading poets.

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A wide and growing range of fun and well-designed activities.

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Explore our growing range of Close Reading resources. It’s a great mix of student or teacher led activities to guide students to think, create, interpret and apply skills and knowledge. All resources are linked to the Australian Curriculum.

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