Detailed description
This analysing text worksheet ‘The First Modern Magician’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about Robert-Houdin. 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 and to look critically at words in order to ascertain their particular meaning in context, as well as draw conclusions about the text as a whole in order to answer questions about it. Answer sheet provided with file download.