Detailed description
This analysing text worksheet ‘Save the Manatee’ supports students to use various strategies to understand opposing letters to the editor about manatee conservation. 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 examine how the text is organised and to predict the meaning of a particular statement, 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.