Is a critical and thoughtful reader across a wide range of texts: selecting, sifting, summarising, comparing and contrasting.
The versatile reader can read widely and independently and is able to apply more analytical reading skills to a varied range of fiction and non-fiction texts.
These readers are able to communicate both personal and critical perspectives on a text. They make clear judgements about texts but they are able to step outside the text as well, increasingly aware of how their judgements are being formed. They are willing to re-read to clarify and re-evaluate and they are aware both of their role as a reader as well as their position in the text.
They sense the artifice of text, are comfortable with alternative interpretations and are able to sustain detailed links between and across texts. They read increasingly with insight, demonstrating an understanding of the way structural, dramatic and linguistic techniques can shape the reader's response.
Furthermore, the versatile reader is able to implement these skills without support and under pressure of time when necessary.