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This analysing text worksheet ‘An Environmental Quandary’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about a woman’s aversion to mice. 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 the use of suspense, to examine how the text is organised, to predict the meaning of a particular phrase, as well as make judgements about and draw conclusions from the text in order to answer questions about it. Answer sheet provided with file download.