Detailed description
This analysing text worksheet ‘The First African-American Female Pilot’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about Bessie Coleman. 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 what could have happened, as well as draw conclusions about details in the text and the text as a whole in order to answer questions about it. Answer sheet provided with file download.