Detailed description

This analysing text worksheet ‘John Muir’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about the famous naturalist. 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 to predict the meaning of a particular statement, as well as form opinions about the text as a whole in order to answer questions about it. Answer sheet provided with file download.