When the caretaker at Bombay School in Northland introduced the students to unicycles a few years ago, a new craze began. The article introduces unusual sporting heroes in two young Māori from Northland who have achieved international success in unicycling.

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. 
• Independent learning contracts including: comprehension and inferencing, text organisation and exploring author's use of language, responding with compassion and empathy, developing self regulation and co-regulation skills, understanding feelings and needs, higher order thinking skills and metacognition, 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: hobbies, sports, unicycles, PE, physical education, sporting heroes, champions, practice, determination, commitment, Chris Huriwai, Sam La Hood.