This article is about Richard Owen, a British scientist of the early nineteenth century, and the role he played in identifying the moa as the largest bird ever known to humans. 

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: animal anatomy, conservation, environment, extinction, moa, paleontology, Richard Owen, identification, dinosaurs, bones, new species, exotic animals, bone collector, living world.