Reading and

Interpreting Texts
 Learning Intentions

1. To identify text types and their

features

2. Answering questions using PQ or

PQE
 Success Criteria

• Read the articles given

• Answer the questions using PQ

and PQE
 PQE

• Read the article and answer the questions that follow using PQE
P= Point
Q= Quote
E= Explain (if necessary).

Full sentences are essential. Write the text heading in your copy and
number your questions.
 Success! 
• Step 1: Write the text heading
in your copy
• Step 2: Number your
questions
• Step 3: Before you write your
answer, remember how you
will use PQE/PQ
• Full sentences are essential
 Example of Using PQE or PQ
Easkey: Surf’s New Role Model Report.

Question 6: ‘Why does Easkey think that surfing

is male-dominated and what is she doing to
change this? Does it make her heroic in any
way?’
 How You Would Answer Question 6.
Easkey thinks that surfing is male-dominated because
she says: ‘you only have to look at the world surf tour
and see what the guys get as prize money and see the
girls getting about half that’. To change this, she is
mentoring the ‘younger girls entering a male
dominated sport’. (This is using Point and Quote). It
makes her heroic… (And then you Explain).
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 Over the following weeks you will be using
Cresents- the textbook for Junior Cycle.
Any parts of the textbook we are using, will be put on a Google Doc and it
will be in a folder called ‘Crescents’ under classwork in your English Google
Classroom.

If you are using your phone to access the reading

Material and questions, please ask your
Teacher in advance of taking the phone out.

Please ensure that your phone is charged before English if you do not have
the textbook.
 Introducing text types…..

What does ‘text’ mean to you?

Log on to Menti with code: 7216

4661 and write down as many ideas
as you can think of in one minute.
Think of all the things that can be read / watched/
listened to… this might help add to your list!
• What was the last thing you read?
• What is your favourite thing to read?
• What do you hate reading?
• Do you have a favourite type of TV to watch?

All of the above are ‘texts’!

Get ready to tick off your list with the list on the next slide.
 Text Types
• Newspaper (tabloid / broadsheet/ • Brochure All of these
sports section/ local/ farmers
journal) • Advertisement texts have their
• Novels • Speech own ‘style’ or
• Recipe ‘features’. In
• Short stories
• Weather forecast pairs, choose
• Poetry
two from the
• Reports • Schedule
lists and write
• Tweets • Menu
what you think
• Film text • Graffiti would be a
• Documentary • Instructions common
• Diary entries • Information feature.
• Fairy Tales • Soap Opera
• Lyrics • Picture Book
• Drama • Science Fiction
Did you choose any
of the following?
• An image / photo
• Facts/ figures / statistics
• Humour
• An actor / actress
• Rhyme
• Fantasy
• Art