Rez Gardi was the 2017 Young New Zealander of the year. She was born in a Kurdish refugee camp in Pakistan and came to New Zealand as a young child, with her family. She is now a successful lawyer and calls New Zealand home.

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: bullying, change, comic, culture, difference, graphic text, immigrants, Iraq, Kurdistan, Kurds, migration, memoir, Pakistan, refugee camps, refugees, resettlement, Rez Gardi, school, teasing, Turkey, war, family, overcoming obstacles, language.