The techniques used for close reading are the same ones you will see in the texts you study this year, and, hopefully, they will also appear in your extended writing assessment(s). Close Reading sits alongside Wide Reading: you should be perusing a range of texts, from extended feature articles, to pre-twentieth and pre-twenty-first century fiction, magazine columns and reference books. In fact, the better read you are, the better your critical response to texts. Check out the Senior English general stuff unit on koodle for wide reading book lists.
