Jayson has just arrived in New Zealand to stay with his nan. She is on her marae preparing for an unveiling and is feeling out of his depth. Will he ever learn about tikanga Māori and how he, too, belongs.

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: belonging, change, family, fitting in, growing, hura kōhatu, learning, Māori, marae, teaching, teina, teina-tuakana, tikanga, tuakana, unveiling, whānau, wharenui