A tree is a type of plant. Grass is also a plant. So are vegetables. What makes a tree different from these other plants?

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: annual, bark, biennial, branches, carbon dioxide, deciduous, endemic, environment, evergreen, flowers, habitat, introduced, leaves, native, nutrients, oxygen, perennial, photosynthesis, plants, roots, Tāne Mahuta, tree, trunk, twigs