This article presents a lot of facts about the sun and information about how the sun affects Earth. There are some enormous numbers involved! 

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: Alpha Centauri, astronomy, day and night, life on Earth, moon, seasons, Southern Cross, stars, sun, sunlight, sunspots, planet Earth