Description
In this text, three children each retell the story they have been given to explain how Ngāti Kurī got their name. Each story reflects the clever thinking, endurance, skills, and resourcefulness of the children’s ancestors.
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!!
Themes explored include: ancestors, Aotearoa, atua, dogs, heritage, identity, iwi, kurī, kurīmoana, mana, mokopuna, Ngāti Kaha, Ngāti Kurī, pā, Pārengarenga Harbour, pride, tūpuna, waka, whakapapa, whale, whānau
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