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This analysing text worksheet ‘Africanised “Killer” Bees’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about these dangerous bees. 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, as well as their format, in order to ascertain their particular meaning in context, to make judgements about and draw conclusions from the text, to examine the author’s purpose, as well as form opinions and make predictions about the text as a whole in order to answer questions about it. Answer sheet provided with file download.