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This analysing text worksheet ‘Forgotten Inventors from History’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about three American inventors. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to look critically at words in order to ascertain their particular meaning in context, to predict the meaning of a particular statement, as well as make judgements about and draw conclusions from details in the text and the text as a whole in order to answer questions about it. Answer sheet provided with file download.