Detailed description
This analysing text worksheet ‘Letter to the Editor about Extreme Sports’ supports students to use various strategies to understand opposing newspaper editorials. 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 certain phrases, to examine how the text is organised and make judgements about and draw conclusions from the text in order to answer questions about it. Answer sheet provided with file download.