Code Breaker

Materials
The happiest Refugee By Anh Do
A3 Sheets

Activity:
DO NOT OPEN BOOK OR READ BLUR CODE
BREAKERS
1. You are to firstly predict the content using a variety
of clues: visuals, titles, headings, and choice of words
2. Next, students sit in a group and read pages 2/3
pages each of the book. Take turns, one student will
read a page, another child will read the next page
3. Children are to develop word banks containing topic
words, high frequency words and link words
4. Next, discuss the conventions of print (the text)
including punctuation and grammar
5. Then, investigate letter/symbol sound relationships
6. Finally, develop banks of frequently used
words/words around topics, functions and notions
7. Once you have finished answering the questions,
summarise the activity and write write it on the A3
sheet of paper.

Text-to-self Connection
What is it?
A connection between the text and something in your own
life experience.







What does this book remind you of?
Can you relate to the characters in the story?
Does anything in this story remind you of anything in
your own life?
Students - answer these questions using the app
Corkulous write down, ideas, notes and include
pictures.
Text-to-text Connection
What is it?
A connection between the text and another story or text that
you have read previously.







What does this remind you of in another book you have
read?
How is this text similar to other things you have read?
How is this text different from other things you have read?
Students - answer these questions using the app
Corkulous: write down, ideas, notes and include pictures.
Text-to-world Connection
What is it?
A connection between the text and something that is
occurring or has occurred in the world






What does this remind you of in the real world?
How are events in this story similar to things that happen in
the real world?
How are events in this story different from things that
happen in the real world?
Students - answer these questions using the app
Corkulous write down, ideas, notes and include
pictures.
Word Vocab
Materials
A3 Piece of Paper x 2
Colour Markers
The Little Refugee Picturebook
Light bulb Moment
Complex sentences - A complex sentence has an independent
clause joined by one or more dependent clauses. A complex sentence
always has a subordinator such as because, since, after, although,
or when (and many others) or a relative pronoun such
as that, who, or which. For example in this complex sentence:
subjects are in yellow, verbs are in green, and the subordinators
The teacher returned the homework after she noticed the
error.

Activity
1. As a group go through different pages and find key
words and word groups in complex sentences.
2. Find some nouns and verbs throughout the text and
use the iPad app (educreations) to write down your
ideas and nouns
3. Ensure you save your work on the iPads
4. Report back to the group when you are finished.




Imagery
The Little Refugee Pages 4 and 5
What is the mood of the
images?
What emotions can you
see?
What colours do you
see?
How does these images
help us understand the
text?


















Imagery
The Little Refugee Pages 16 and 17
What is the mood of the
images?
What emotions can you
see?
What colours are used? How does these images
help us understand the
text?


















How do images contribute to our understanding
and interpretation of the text?
For example the use of mood helps the audience understand, that the text is a
happy, sad, scared, funny text. Can we still understand the text with images? Or
do images help support and helps us interpret the overall meaning and point to the
text.



Write a few sentences on a negative and positive story then, show that story but using freeze
frame.