Gladys loves school and hopes to be a teacher one day until her dreams are shattered when her parents tell her she has to go to work as a cleaner for a local family. Set during the Depression.

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: The Depression, education, envy, family, poverty, responsibility, school, siblings, 1930s, unemployment, hardship, parents.