Two brothers with a reputation for trouble try to make things better by carrying out some challenges but still they fail to impress the other villagers. They are banished to live in the heavens. A traditional story.

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: Humu, legends, Ma‘afu, Ma‘afulele, Ma‘afutoka, Magellanic Clouds, myths, Southern Cross, Toloa, Tonga, traditional stories, navigation, stars