Snow has fallen overnight, and Joe is reluctant to go outside and feed the chooks. When he finally does, he finds Henrietta in a bad way.

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: chickens, comfort, death, family, grief, hard decisions, pets, relationships, responsibility, kindness, acceptance, compassion, courage.