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This analysing text worksheet ‘Laura’s Quest for Wide-open Spaces’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about saving land from development. 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 and make judgements about and draw conclusions from details in the text as well as the text as a whole, and form opinions about the text as a whole in order to answer questions about it. Answer sheet provided with file download.