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This analysing text worksheet ‘Early Women Drivers Who Dared to Be Different’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about the first women to drive from coast-to-coast across America. 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 and why the author chose to use special type, to draw conclusions about the text, as well as to predict events that could have happened to change the course of the story and those that took place after the conclusion of the text in order to answer questions about it. Answer sheet provided with file download.