Detailed description
This analysing text worksheet ‘Honour Our Earliest People’ supports students to use various strategies to understand opposing letters to the editor about creating a new public holiday. 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 make judgements about and draw conclusions from the text, as well as form opinions about the text as a whole in order to answer questions about it. Answer sheet provided with file download.