When Mana and Dom have to spend some time with Nan and her new partner at Uenuku Ecovillage, Dom isn’t as excited as Mana. He finds it hard to accept that Dom is trying to take his grandfather’s place, or is he?

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: change, community, eco-village, family, grandparents, grief, loss, music, new partners, performance, relationships, ukuleles, whānau, getting on and falling out, siblings.