This article examines the rapid decline in scallop numbers due to overfishing and pollution and the efforts being made to recover and save the species.

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: ban, climate change, community, dredging, environment, indigenous knowledge, kaimoana, kaitiaki, kaitiakitanga, ocean, overfishing, pollution, rāhui, resource management, scallops, sea, shellfish, sustainability, tikanga, tipa