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This analysing text worksheet ‘History of Figure Skating’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about the origins of this sport. 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 consider why the author uses illustrations in the text, to examine how the text is organised and draw conclusions from the text in order to answer questions about it. Answer sheet provided with file download.