Reading Exam Techniques

Start with close reading questions

Begin with How to answer close reading questions. This flashcard deck covers questions on word choice, understanding, tone, imagery and sentence structure. It gives school students a way to become familiar with different question types before working through an answer.

Teachers looking for ready-made material can use the deck to see the range of questions covered. The resources on this page focus on reading techniques, including English close reading.

Use a map to organize your answers

After exploring the flashcards, open Close Reading Formulas. Its imagery section sets out an approach: identify the image, give its literal meaning and explain the connection. Use it alongside the imagery questions in the flashcard deck to connect a question type with an answer structure.

The Close Reading mind map also covers skimming, identifying information and explaining answers simply in your own words. It includes link questions about how ideas are joined. Move between the map and the flashcards as you study the different skills.

Look at structure and question types

RUAE Flashcards covers features such as repetition, contrast, lists and unusually short or long sentences. The notes titled RUAE Questions - Structures bring together question types including word choice, tone, context, imagery and links. They also include practice questions.

There are no quizzes on this topic page. The flashcards, notes and mind maps offer other ways to review question types and answer structures.

Connect the resources

This topic sits within the reading comprehension and text analysis unit in Spanish language as a school subject. The listed English close reading resources give students and teachers material for examining how questions ask readers to explain a text. Choose a question type and compare how a flashcard deck and a mind map approach it.