Teaching close reading

Most of us will have memories of being read to aloud when we were young, and it is perhaps a shame that this practice tends to stop when we get older. Reading texts of any kind out loud can yield all kinds of benefits, and tends (rightly) to be a mainstay of the literature classroom. However, it is not always a practice exploited to best effect - as many of us will know from experiences of reading authors like Shakespeare,...

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