I heard a joke the other day – A boy walks up the street with one jandal on, and his friend says, “Hey, you lose a jandal?” “Nah,” the boy says, “I found one.”

This pack contains 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
  

Themes explored include: advice, beach, community, cooperation, family, free verse, helping, jandal, joke, metaphor, poetry, story, storytelling, Tim Upperton, verse, working together