Piki and his koro are trying to save some stranded whales, an experience that reminds Piki of his dad and his own troubles.

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: ancestor, change, community, conservation, environment, family, fishing, grandparent, matriarch, Project Jonah, relationships, resilience, stranding, support, tohorā, upokohue, volunteer, wellbeing, whale, whānau