Detailed description
This analysing text worksheet ‘The United States’ Greatest Athlete’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about Jim Thorpe. 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 make judgements about and draw conclusions from details in the text and the text as a whole, as well as predict what might have happened if the subject of the text was still alive in order to answer questions about it. Answer sheet provided with file download.