Detailed description
This analysing text worksheet ‘The Phoenix Gazette’ supports students to use various strategies to understand opposing letters to the editor regarding Gila monsters. 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, to make judgements about and draw conclusions from details in the text and form an opinion about the text as a whole in order to answer questions about it. Answer sheet provided with file download.