These days, people can fly almost anywhere in the world, but it has taken many inventions over hundreds of years to be able to do this.

This pack contains response activities complete with activity explainer videos for supporting teaching and learning reading strategies including:

• Skim and Scan activities
• Summarise activities
• Questioning activities
• Inference activities
• Making Connections activities
• Visualising activities

Themes explored include: aeroplanes, air currents, airplanes, climate change, electricity, electric plane, engineering, engines, environment, flight, flying, fuel, George Bolt, George Cayley, gliders, history, hot-air balloons, inventions, inventors, Jean Batten, jumbo jets, Pacific Islands, passengers, planes, pollution, records, renewable energy, Richard Pearse, solar energy, solo, technology, wings, Wright brothers