Carlos Vakalaloma has lots of interests. He likes playing rugby and doing jigsaw puzzles. During lockdown, he also spent a lot of time cooking. If he was forced to choose his favourite meal, to both cook and eat, he’d say sapasui. The dish is a version of chop suey, which originally comes from China.

This pack contains wide range of response activities including:

• A guided reading plan exploring key literacy elements including inference and deduction, language use, making connection and text organisation, along with key questioning to promote emotional intelligence, metacognition and compassionate inquiry. 
• An independent learning contract complete with explainer videos for activity clarity
  
• A wide range of response activities to support developing and embedding key literacy skills including sentence and word work, spelling, and cloze activities. 

Themes explored include: Chinese, chop suey, cooking, cuisine, eating, Fiji, food, kitchen, migrants, noodles, Pacific, Pasifika, recipes, Sāmoa, sapasui, traditional food, tūpuna