{"product_id":"sj-yrs-5-6-november-2025-pedal-powered-community-literacy-pack","title":"SJ Yrs 5 \u0026 6 November 2025 Pedal-powered Community Literacy Pack","description":"\u003cp data-end=\"618\" data-start=\"0\"\u003e\u003cem data-end=\"45\" data-start=\"20\"\u003ePedal-powered Community\u003c\/em\u003e by Renata Hopkins is an engaging non-fiction text that explores how cycling helps build healthier people, stronger communities, and more sustainable cities. Set in Ōtautahi Christchurch, the text traces the rise of community bike organisations such as RAD Bikes following the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes, showing how local action can drive environmental change, social connection, and wellbeing. Through real-life examples, statistics, and personal stories, students learn how repairing, reusing, and riding bikes can reduce waste, improve health, and bring people together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1052\" data-start=\"620\"\u003eBlending historical context with contemporary community action, the text supports students to think critically about sustainability, volunteering, and the role of collective effort in shaping cities. It encourages readers to reflect on how practical solutions and shared responsibility can create positive change, making it a rich text for inquiry-based learning in the upper primary classroom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThis pack contains wide range of response activities including:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA 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. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn independent learning contract complete with explainer videos for activity clarity\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA wide range of response activities to support developing and embedding key literacy skills including sentence and word work, spelling, and cloze activities. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCurriculum Phase: \u003c\/strong\u003ePhase 2\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYear Level: \u003c\/strong\u003eYear 6\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1812\" data-start=\"1137\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEnglish:\u003c\/strong\u003e reading for meaning, locating and synthesising information, analysing text structure and supporting detail, interpreting statistics and visual information, summarising key ideas, and supporting responses with evidence from the text\u003cbr data-end=\"1380\" data-start=\"1377\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHealth and Physical Education: \u003c\/strong\u003ephysical activity, mental and physical wellbeing, community participation, active transport, healthy lifestyle choices\u003cbr data-end=\"1532\" data-start=\"1529\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTechnology:\u003c\/strong\u003e understanding systems and processes, recycling and reuse, design thinking, problem solving, innovation in community contexts\u003cbr data-end=\"1671\" data-start=\"1668\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSocial Sciences:\u003c\/strong\u003e community action, volunteering, sustainability, local history, continuity and change, impact of earthquakes on communities\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1887\" data-start=\"1814\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eText type: \u003c\/strong\u003eNon-fiction, informational article, community-focused report\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1676\" data-end=\"1934\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKey words include: \u003c\/strong\u003eactive transport, bicycles, Christchurch, community, community action, cycling, earthquakes, environmental sustainability, health and wellbeing, innovation, Ōtautahi, recycling, renewable transport, sustainability, systems thinking, volunteering, volunteers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Resource Cupboard NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45438527504582,"sku":"SJ Yrs 5 \u0026 6 November 2025 Pedal-powered Community Literacy Pack","price":8.5,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0660\/6530\/1702\/files\/SJ_Yrs56_November_2025_text_Page_01.jpg?v=1768188923","url":"https:\/\/theresourcecupboard.co.nz\/products\/sj-yrs-5-6-november-2025-pedal-powered-community-literacy-pack","provider":"The Resource Cupboard NZ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}