Makira is an island in the Solomon Islands where the people rely on fish to feed their families. This article follows the process of setting up a fish farm that will enable the villagers to eat fish even when the weather is too rough for them to fish at sea. 

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: subsistence, weather, Solomon Islands, fishing, traditions, hard work, custom, traditional