How to teach close reading<br>Closely read the text yourself. To teach close reading, it is important that you first do a close reading of a text yourself. Extrapolate all of the details you can that are both directly stated and implied in the text, determine the apparent audience and the writer's purpose.
To figure out the author's purpose, you need to determine the apparent audience first.
the passage does not state that one of these is a prerequisite for the other
( z1 need :ARG0 ( z2 you ) :ARG1 ( z3 determine :ARG0 z2 :ARG1 ( z4 audience :ARG1-of ( z5 appear ) ) :ord ( z6 ordinal-entity :value 1 ) ) :purpose ( z7 figure-out :ARG0 z2 :ARG1 ( z8 purpose :poss ( z9 person :ARG0-of ( z10 author ) ) ) ) )