Māori brought the kurī or Polynesian dog with them when they came to Aotearoa New Zealand. What do we know about kurī, their origins, what they were used for, and why they died out?

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: cloaks, dogs, environment, explorers, Īhenga, kahukurī, kurī, middens, migration, Polynesian dogs, Tāneatua, traditional Māori society, Te Urewera,