According to the context, what did the author intend the text to communicate to the first readers? No matter what text you study, try to answer this question as well as you can before proceeding to the next step. The easiest way to do this is to read the written context, review what you discovered from step 2, and answer the above question. Some texts may not be clear or may be interpreted in several ways. However, one meaning will usually be most in agreement with the way the text was written, the