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    This document discusses the three levels of reading: 1. The literal level focuses on understanding the basic meanings of individual words. 2. The inferential level involves understanding implied or suggested meanings by considering words in their context. 3. The evaluative level is about understanding the overall message or impact of a text by connecting it to one's own experiences and opinions.

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    This document discusses the three levels of reading: 1. The literal level focuses on understanding the basic meanings of individual words. 2. The inferential level involves understanding implied or suggested meanings by considering words in their context. 3. The evaluative level is about understanding the overall message or impact of a text by connecting it to one's own experiences and opinions.

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    This document discusses the three levels of reading: 1. The literal level focuses on understanding the basic meanings of individual words. 2. The inferential level involves understanding implied or suggested meanings by considering words in their context. 3. The evaluative level is about understanding the overall message or impact of a text by connecting it to one's own experiences and opinions.

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    This document discusses the three levels of reading: 1. The literal level focuses on understanding the basic meanings of individual words. 2. The inferential level involves understanding implied or suggested meanings by considering words in their context. 3. The evaluative level is about understanding the overall message or impact of a text by connecting it to one's own experiences and opinions.

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    LEVELS OF

    READING
    THE THREE LEVELS OF READING
    • Reading is a complicated process that's difficult
    to learn, not least because there are so many
    things involved. One of the ways we can split
    up the challenge of reading is to think of there
    being three levels of reading. These levels are
    sometimes known as the three levels of
    meaning, and they are:
    THE LITERAL LEVEL
    • (reading on the lines) - what are the words and what are
    their meanings?
    • It's sometimes known as reading on the lines, because we
    only pay attention to exactly what is written down in front
    of us. The literal level is just as important for understanding
    spoken language, recognising sounds as words and
    connecting them to meanings.
    At the literal level, we can't assume anything. Take the word 'fire',
    how many different kinds of fire can you think of? There's
    fireplaces, campfires, bonfires, building fires, forest fires,
    controlled fires, wildfires, dangerous fires, useful fires and more,
    all covered by this one word. At the literal level, we don't know
    what kind of fire is being described. For that, we have to go down
    to the inferential level.
    THE INFERENTIAL LEVEL
    • The inferential level is also known as reading between the
    lines, and it's all about understanding the meaning that isn't
    obvious in the definitions of each individual word.
    • The word inferential may look long and complicated, but
    it's just talking about what we infer from a text. These are
    the things a text implies or suggests to us. For this level, we
    think about the words in their context, and we consider
    what associations we have with them.
    • Idioms and metaphors are also good examples for this.
    When someone says they're over the moon or that someone
    is a snake, they don't mean that these things are literally
    true. They're asking us to infer that they're really happy, or
    that the person they're talking about is cunning and
    untrustworthy. In these cases, the inferential level is very
    far removed from the literal level.
    THE EVALUATIVE LEVEL
    • At the evaluative level, we're asking ourselves the meaning of the entire text,
    beyond what's there and what we can infer. We want to know its message, and
    we want to connect it to our own experiences and opinions, and those of
    others. We mentioned that our experiences might affect how we infer, but
    here they are central to our complete understanding of a text and its characters
    • The evaluative level always depends on at least one of the other two levels.
    Only by understanding what's literally there and what's hidden a little deeper
    can we look at the overall impact. That's why it's important to use quotations
    to back up your answers on reading tests. When you give an opinion about the
    book and its characters or events, you need to explain what parts of the text
    make you think that and why.
    • At the evaluative level, we put more of ourselves into the story. We
    think about how we would react in that situation, how the events are
    similar to our own lives and how we might think differently now
    we've read it. The evaluative level is all about the big questions.
    • This is the level where you're most likely to disagree with other
    people about what a text means. Everyone's opinions are just as
    valuable and justified. There's no right and wrong at the evaluative
    level. It's all about sharing ideas and enjoying how we are so diverse
    that we can read the same thing and come to such different
    conclusions.
    THE THREE LEVELS OF READING

    • Literal (reading on the lines) - what are the words and what are
    their meanings?
    • Inferential (reading between the lines) - what are the words
    suggesting and implying in this situation?
    • Evaluative (reading beyond the lines) - how do these words
    contribute to the text as a whole and/or the world outside the text

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