Detailed description
This analysing text worksheet ‘Looking Down’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about a family hike. 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 identify figurative language, to make judgements about and draw conclusions from the text, to predict a character’s point of view, as well as examine how the text as a whole is organised in order to answer questions about it. Answer sheet provided with file download.