“Readers need to understand texts at more than a surface level. Reading can be thought of as a continuum extending from surface meaning to a level “where the reader can interpret the author’s implied meanings and then continues to the deeper levels of critical reading, where the reader evaluates the content, responds to the author’s ideas, and integrates those ideas with their own existing knowledge” .
Ministry of Education, 2004, p. 73
Ideas and strategies to engage students with texts:
Published on: 08 Jan 2018
