Megan and Lita are cousins who belong to the Tongan community in Wellington. Every week they come together with their mothers, grandmother, and other women and girls to learn about Tongan culture and how to make ngatu. 

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: community, culture, design, family, feta‘aki, grandparents, identity, lea faka-Tonga, ngatu, parents, processes, tapa, Tonga, traditions, generations, tapa cloth.