Analysing and Synthesising

When readers take apart a text they have read, examine it from their own viewpoint, and put it back together again, they make it their own. When they compare different texts, drawing out similarities and differences and deciding on the reasons for these, they create a new web of knowledge.

Readers:

• identify and reflect on the ideas, features, or structures of a text/texts and consider how they link to the other ideas, features, or structures and to the reader's prior knowledge and experience
• look for common elements, for example, similarities in the writer's use of imagery within a text or similarities in ideas across several texts, in order to reach a conclusion that relates to their learning goal or reading purpose
• use this conclusion to inform their thinking and generate new ideas to help them meet their learning goal or reading purpose.