Q3 Questions to ask:

Consider key questions of the text

Possible key questions move from the what, to how and on to why. They could include:

1. When I first start to read the text, what is the writer focusing my attention on?

2. How is this being developed?

3. What feature of structure is evident at this point?

4. Why might the writer have deliberately chosen to begin the text with this focus and therefore make use of this particular

feature of structure?

5. What main points of focus does the writer develop in sequence after the starting

point?

6. How is each being developed?

7. Why is the writer taking me through this particular sequence?

8. How is this specific to helping me relate to the intended meaning(s) at these

points?

9. What does the writer focus my attention on at the end of the text?

10. How is this developed as a structural feature?

11. How am I left thinking or feeling at the end?

12. Why might the writer have sought to bring me to this point of

interest/understanding?