Route
Academic Reading
Strategies for skimming, scanning and close reading; identifying argument, structure and evidence to read efficiently and critically.
Learning pathway
Academic Reading: Core Strategies & Main Ideas
Build core academic reading skills for identifying main ideas, supporting details, implicit meaning, text structure and reading purpose.
Reading Strategies – Overview
Choose reading strategies that match your purpose and learn when to skim, scan, read selectively, or read closely.
Find the Thesis
Identify the central claim or controlling idea that gives an academic text its overall direction.
Main Ideas: Guided Practice
Practise identifying main ideas and supporting details, then summarise the central ideas of an academic text.
Topic Sentences
Use explicit and implicit paragraph main ideas to follow how an academic text develops.
Infer Implicit Main Ideas
Combine clues across a paragraph to infer important ideas that the writer does not state directly.
Signposting & Structure
Use headings, connectors, paragraph roles, and text structure to predict and track how ideas develop.
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This pathway is a recommended learning route, not a restriction on what you can study.
Learning pathway
Academic Reading: Sources & Academic Argument
Develop skills for selecting and evaluating academic sources and analysing academic arguments and evidence.
Selection criteria
Apply relevance, authority, currency and purpose to choose sources.
Guided Practice
Model target language/skills with scaffolds; short controlled tasks with feedback.
Independent Practice & Reflection
Freer application to authentic tasks; quick reflection and improvement actions.
Academic Argument Analysis
Model target language/skills with scaffolds; short controlled tasks with feedback.
Independent Practice & Reflection
Freer application to authentic tasks; quick reflection and improvement actions.
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This pathway is a recommended learning route, not a restriction on what you can study.
Learning pathway
Academic Reading: Visuals & Data
Develop skills for interpreting academic visuals, identifying significant patterns and reading data critically.
Data Commentary & Visuals – Overview
Overview for Data Commentary & Visuals.
Describing trends & comparisons
Identify patterns and compare values accurately and concisely.
Guided Practice
Model target language/skills with scaffolds; short controlled tasks with feedback.
Cautious language & quantification
Use hedging and precise quantities to avoid overclaiming.
Independent Practice & Reflection
Freer application to authentic tasks; quick reflection and improvement actions.
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Use the Academic Reading topics in the left-hand navigation to explore the full curriculum.
This pathway is a recommended learning route, not a restriction on what you can study.
Learning pathway
Academic Reading: Synthesis, Notes & Vocabulary
Develop academic reading-to-learn skills through selective note-making, synthesis and vocabulary inference.
Guided Practice
Model target language/skills with scaffolds; short controlled tasks with feedback.
Independent Practice & Reflection
Freer application to authentic tasks; quick reflection and improvement actions.
Guided Practice
Model target language/skills with scaffolds; short controlled tasks with feedback.
Independent Practice & Reflection
Freer application to authentic tasks; quick reflection and improvement actions.
Prefer to choose your own route?
Use the Academic Reading topics in the left-hand navigation to explore the full curriculum.
This pathway is a recommended learning route, not a restriction on what you can study.