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This analysing text worksheet ‘Navajo Culture Offers a Code’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about American Indian marines in WWII. 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 why the author included certain information, to examine how the text is organised, to make judgements about and draw conclusions from details in the text and the text as a whole, as well as well as make predictions about events following the conclusion of the text in order to answer questions about it. Answer sheet provided with file download.