Description
Based on the diary of Iris Marshall, a ten-year-old girl who sailed on the yacht Dog Star with her parents and a family friend from New Zealand to Nouméa, this article explores the highs and lows of their journey.
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: adventure, co-ordinates, danger, diaries, family, going for goals, GPS, journeys, logs, navigation, Pacific Ocean, perils, recount, rewards, sailing, sea, travel, weather, yachts
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