Four Resources Model Sheet: Newspaper article

Instructions: Read the Newspaper article, highlighting any important facts and write a quick summary of
the text in your exercise books. Then answer the following questions in your exercise books. Make sure that
you put the title of each box at the top of your page and list the number of the question you are answering,
next to your answer.
Code Breaker Text Participant
1. What words/sentences are interesting
and/or tricky within this text?
2. What words do I not know?
3. Does this text use numbers, headings,
and/or captions?
4. What type of punctuation is used?
5. Does the text incorporate visuals? Of
whom/what?
6. Does the text use colour? What
colour(s)?
7. What format does it use? (How is the
article set out?)
8. Does this text remind me of other texts
that I have read or written? Which texts?
9. Can I make connections between this
text and other texts? Which texts?
10. Can I make connections between this
text and my life or the world? In what
ways?
11. What message/main idea(s) is the author
presenting to me in this text?
12. How has the author presented
information (e.g., through formatting,
words, numbers, colour, captions, other
visuals)?
13. Text User 14. Text Analysis
15. What sort of text is this? How do I know
this?
16. Why was this text written? What is its
purpose?
17. How is this text organised? How is the
information and/or visuals organised?
18. Does this text use numbers, headings or
captions? Does it incorporate
words/sentences and/or punctuation?
To what effect(s)?
19. Does this text incorporate visuals? Of
whom/what? What effect does this have
on the text and how I read it?
20. Does the text use colour? What
colour(s)? To what effect?
21. Why has the author written this text? For
what purpose?
22. How does the text (re)present the views
of those seeking asylum in Australia?
23. In what other ways could the views of
asylum seekers be represented?
24. What linguistic/visual elements does it
use to do this?
25. Who is the target audience of this
article? Why do you think this?
26. How would the text be different if it was
written for a different audience (e.g. for
the asylum seekers themselves)?
27. How would the text differ if it was
written from an asylum seekers point of
view?

Adapted from: Dalley-Trim, L. (2012). Popular culture in the classroom: A plethora of possibilities. In R. Henderson
(Ed.), Teaching literacies in the middle years: Pedagogies and diversity (pp. 81-110). South Melbourne, Vic: Oxford
University Press.