Analyse significant aspects of unfamiliar written text(s) through close reading, supported by evidence
This standard asks you to read an unfamiliar written text carefully and figure out how the author creates meaning through their choices. You need to pick out important ideas, language features, or structures that matter, then explain how these work together—backing up everything you say with specific evidence from the text itself.
You analyse a significant aspect of the text with general understanding, support your points with some specific evidence, and identify language features or techniques with basic awareness of why the author used them.
You analyse multiple aspects convincingly, using a wide range of well-chosen evidence that you unpack in depth, and you show how these techniques work together to build a coherent argument about the author's purpose and effect on the reader.
You analyse aspects perceptively, weaving seamless evidence throughout a sophisticated argument, demonstrating original interpretations, explaining how language features work together to shape meaning, and connecting the text to wider contexts with insight and authority.
Standards typically taken alongside or after this one. Same subject, grouped by level.