Functional Skills Level 2 Reading Practice; News Article - Skinny Jeans

Learners are encourage to read this non fiction text, for information and deeper meaning, including interpreting the text, using the Dictionary and analysing language techniques. Learners are encouraged to form and share their own opinions.

Scope of study:

• Identify the different situations when the main points are sufficient and when it is important to have specific details
• Compare information, ideas and opinions in different texts, including how they are conveyed
• Identify implicit and inferred meaning in texts
• Understand the relationship between textual features and devices, and how they can be used to shape meaning for different audiences and purposes
• Use a range of reference materials and appropriate resources (e.g. glossaries, legends/keys) for different purposes, including to find the meanings of words in straightforward and complex sources
• Understand organisational features and use them to locate relevant information in a range of straightforward and complex sources
• Analyse texts, of different levels of complexity, recognising their use of vocabulary and identifying levels of formality and bias
• Follow an argument, identifying different points of view and distinguishing fact from opinion
• Identify different styles of writing and writer’s voice