| Sequencing | ||
| #1 | Where did the Navajo marines live before they went to fight in WWII? | reservation |
| #2 | Where did Private Samuel Billison go when he revealed he was Navajo? | special training camp |
| #3 | Without the Navajo, the marines would have never been able to ... | take Iwo Jima |
| #4 | What happened the first time the Code Talkers put their cryptology to the test? | Even experts couldn't decode it! |
| #5 | What happened after the code talkers sent out Hold Your Fire in Navajo on the island of Saipan? | the shelling stopped |
| Facts and Opinions | ||
| #1 | The Navajo code talkers were the most important part of WWII. | Opinion |
| #2 | The Code Talkers were made up of Native Americans that spoke Navajo. | Fact |
| #3 | The Navajo did not have words for machine gun or tank. | Fact |
| #4 | It is funny that the Navajo's code for Hitler was Daghailchiih or Moustache Smeller. | Opinion |
| #5 | Neasjah means owl or observation plane. | fact |
| Inferencing | ||
| #1 | The iron jawed marines went slack jawed because .... | they were amazed at the codes potential |
| #2 | We can assume Mussolini, Italy's leader, was code named Add-yaats-iin-Tsoh, or Big Gourd Chin because | He had a big chin |
| #3 | Ordinary marines were confused when they listened to the code because | they didn't speak Navajo |
| #4 | The code was never broken during WWII because | it was too difficult for those that did not speak Navajo |
| #5 | Navajos did not write their language down because .... | it is a tonal language |
| Genre | ||
| #1 | This story is what genre? | nonfiction |
| #2 | A story about the life of Private Samuel Billison would be a | biography |
| #3 | The authors purpose in this selection is to | teach us facts |
| #4 | If someone writes a make believe story about a Code Breaker it would be ... | fiction |
| #5 | If you wrote a collection of feelings about the Code Breakers, maybe make it rhyme, etc.. it would be a | poem |
| Vocabulary | ||
| #1 | Writing in secret codes is | encoding |
| #2 | Reading secret codes is | decoding |
| #3 | interrupting or stopping the movement or progress of something is | intercepting |
| #4 | doubtful uncertain | skeptical |
| #5 | changing a secret code into known words | deciphering |
| Final Question | |