Grow Big by Paula Morris is a historical fiction story that imagines the life of Ngāti Wai tūpuna on the east coast of Northland in the late 1700s. The story follows a young boy named Moka who helps his whānau prepare the land for planting kūmara. Through a day of hard work and small challenges, Moka learns that strength is not just about size, but about perseverance, contribution, and working together as a community. 

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!!

English - Reading: Interpreting historical fiction and narrative voice, Making inferences about character feelings and motivations, Identifying themes of perseverance, humility, and teamwork, Understanding figurative language and whakataukī

Social Sciences - Aotearoa New Zealand Histories: Daily life for Māori before large-scale European settlement, Traditional Māori food gathering and cultivation practices, The importance of kūmara cultivation in Māori communities, Understanding tikanga, whakataukī, and the role of whānau and community

Keywords include: ash, community, cultivation, food gathering, hard work, humility, kūmara, marae, Māori life, perseverance, whakataukī, planting, tūpuna, whānau, working together