Description
This pūrākau describes the dramatic quest by Rahi to rescue his wife Tiara from Te Puhuru, who is an expert in casting spells. The story is said to have led to the invention of the game of kī-o-rahi.
This pack contains a range of structured literacy activities including
- Spelling rules ck / dge / drop the e / y as a consonant or vowel
- Sounds of -ed
- Exploring parts of language - adverbs, adjectives, nouns, verbs etc
- Doubling or not when adding -ing, -ed
- Floss rules
- Compound words
- Identifying and naming suffixes
- Identifying and naming prefixes
- Vowel teams
- Root words
- Controlling 'r'
- Diagraphs
- Schwa words
- Ghost diagraphs
- -oo- and -oo- / -au and -ow /
- Hard and soft c and g
- Common subordinating conjunctions
- And much more!!
Themes explored include: eruptions, family, giant eagle, hōkioi, kidnapping, kī-o-rahi, kites, lizards, Māori, mauri, pūrākau, spells, special power, taniwha, tohunga, tohunga mākutu, traditional stories, Tāwhirimātea, volcanoes, whānau, wind
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