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This analysing text worksheet ‘A Great Sea Rescue’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about two ships that collided in New York Harbour. 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 the implicit and explicit meaning of the text, as well as draw conclusions about the text as a whole in order to answer questions about it. Answer sheet provided with file download.