Reading Comprehension and Text Analysis

What this page covers

The resources here focus on reading closely and explaining what you find. Some deal with text structure: the quiz Sequence/Chronological Order, Cause/Effect, and Problem/Solution and the Text Structure Quiz ask you to spot how a paragraph is organised. Others look at fact and opinion, main ideas and details, inference and prediction.

A large share is aimed at exam-style reading and language analysis. Titles mention GCSE English, National 5 English, GCSE Spanish and IGCSE English, so many items suit secondary students.

Where to start

1. Try the Text Structure Quiz to see how well you spot patterns in a paragraph.
2. Move to Fact and opinion and Main Ideas and Details to practise the basics.
3. Use Inference Practice and Predictions to read between the lines.
4. Finish with the quiz The Patchwork of History, which asks you to find explicitly stated evidence in a text.

Using maps and flashcards

The mind map lexis and semantics explains denotation and connotation, and why word associations matter when you analyse a text. English question four sets out how to compare the way language is used in two texts, with band descriptions to check against. English Terminology gives short definitions of terms such as adjacency pair and agenda setting.

The flashcard deck Language Analysis Techniques covers devices such as alliteration, anecdote and appeal to authority. How to answer close reading questions breaks down word choice, tone, imagery and sentence structure questions. Read a map first, then test yourself with a deck.

Where it fits

This unit sits in the Reading and Text Analysis strand of Spanish language as a school subject. Teachers can pick a quiz for a quick check, or share a map or deck as revision material.

Choose one quiz today, then see which maps and decks help you fill the gaps it shows.