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This analysing text worksheet ‘Gipsy Moth IV’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about Francis Chichester’s circumnavigation of the globe. 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 examine how the text is organised, to draw conclusions and make judgements about parts of the text and the text as a whole, as well as consider the author’s purpose for writing the text in order to answer questions about it. Answer sheet provided with file download.