Functional Skills Level 2 Reading Practice; News Article - Rudy Eugene, / Bath Salts

**Trigger warning: This resource, adapted from a BBC News Online article, features drug abuse and cannibalism, and may not be suitable for some learners.
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Learners are encourage to read this non fiction text, for information and deeper meaning, including interpreting the text, and analysing language techniques and presentation features.

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