Hodder Education
National 5 English: Reading for Understanding, Analysis and Evaluation, Second Edition
National 5 English: Reading for Understanding, Analysis and Evaluation, Second Edition
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Exam Board: SQA
Level: National 5
Subject: English
First teaching: September 2017
First exam: Summer 2018

Offer the best possible preparation for National 5 English RUAE. Building students' confidence in reading unseen texts, this book focuses on the skills required for the exam before progressing to worked examples and full-length practice papers.

- Teaches students how to answer every question type effectively and demonstrate their ability to understand ideas, analyse language and structure, and evaluate writers' techniques

- Enables students to put their RUAE skills into practice as they tackle a range of short extracts and questions accompanied by active learning approaches, group work and individual tasks

- Tests the skills that students have developed through six full-length passages and practice assessments, with answers and marking guidelines available online at hoddergibson.co.uk/answers-N5-English-RUAE

- Provides stretch and challenge opportunities, including extension activities and further reading that will broaden students' Reading for Understanding, Analysis and Evaluation skills

Language
English
ISBN
9781510473836
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
Get the most from this book
Tips for studying
How do you read?
Context clues
Part One: Types of questions
Introduction to types of questions
Command words
How questions are worded
Section 1: Understanding questions
1.1 Selecting and understanding information
1.2 Understanding fact and opinion
1.3 How to practise reading skills
1.4 Understanding identification and summary questions
1.5 Understanding inference
1.6 Understanding explanation questions
1.7 Understanding text structure questions
Section 2: Analysis and evaluation questions
2.1 What is ‘language’?
2.2 Word choice
2.3 Figurative language and imagery
2.4 Sentence structure
2.5 Tone
Part Two: Putting the skills into practice
Extract 1: Tuck in! Jacqueline Wilson’s childhood picnics
Extract 2: Strangers in their own land
Extract 3: Odyssey’s end: exploring Milos and Sifnos, Greece
Extract 4: From Hillary Clinton’s speech to the UN World Conference on Women, 1995
Extract 5: ‘We don’t really need phones’: the French school that banned mobiles
Part Three: Practice Papers
Practice Paper 1: Scotland needs to clean up its tourism act
Practice Paper 2: The nature of happiness
Practice Paper 3: Time to go out with a bang?
Practice Paper 4: Scotland’s greatest cartoonist
Practice Paper 5: Scotland the what?
Practice Paper 6: Help! I’ve got incurable hoarder disorder
Appendices
Appendix 1: Practice Paper progress review
Appendix 2: Aspects of grammar and syntax
Glossary
Acknowledgements
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