Leo’s father has a houseboat in England and when Leo goes to visit him they remember what it was like when the family was together and what the river was like before it was polluted by a factory upstream. When Leo tries to see the selkie, he falls into the river. To save himself he finds that he has to stop fighting the river, just as he has to stop fighting the changes in his life.

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. 
• An independent learning contract 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: camouflage, fantasy, friends, geckos, humour, lizards, mokomoko, pets, predators, relationships