Can make a considered response to a range of texts and use information from a range of sources.
Reflective readers not only identify relevant points in a text but are able to find significance in, summarise and synthesise information from different texts or from different places in the same text.
They are able to incorporate apt quotation or textual reference neatly into their argument to support their ideas, linking examples and explanations or comments coherently in their responses to text.
Readers at this stage are beginning to move from straightforward inference to more sophisticated interpretations and are beginning to be comfortable with the notion that different layers of meaning are possible within a text. In other words, they are increasingly reflective and perceptive readers who appreciate the way a text can work at different levels and are able to explore their ideas in some detail.
Furthermore, they are becoming aware of the wider implications of information, ideas or events in a text as well as the deeper significance of the writer's use of language and organisational features and the way these contribute to the text as a whole.