Adolescent Literacy Series: Comparative Reading, Years 7-10

This volume in the Adolescent Literacy Series focuses on helping students to develop their ability to understand, analyse and compare two or more ideas expressed in various kinds of texts and images. Comparative reading involves applying skills of comparison, contrast, generalisation and synthesis to the texts, images and ideas, and requires students to think about texts in ways that go beyond comprehension. The concepts that this book teaches are fundamental to many subjects in secondary school curricula, as well as important life skills. This book: focuses on the additional effort required from the student to comprehend multiple ideas and to provide analysis, synthesis and evaluative insights into the texts; and encourages students to make connections between texts and other texts.