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 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: camouflage, fantasy, friends, geckos, humour, lizards, mokomoko, pets, predators, relationships