Detailed description
This analysing text worksheet ‘How Chewing Gum Was Developed’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about this invention. 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 predict the meaning of a particular phrase and to examine how the text is organised, as well as make judgements about and draw conclusions from details the text and the text as a whole in order to answer questions about it. Answer sheet provided with file download.