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This analysing text worksheet ‘Staying Cool’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about a very hot day. 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 examine how a text is organised, to look critically at words in order to ascertain their particular meaning in context, as well as make judgements about the text as a whole in order to answer questions about it. Answer sheet provided with file download.