Description
In a time when aviation was taking off, eighteen-year-old Jean Batten had a dream of becoming the first woman to fly alone from England to New Zealand. This article explores the many challenges she overcame to do just that.
This pack contains a range of structured literacy activities including
- Spelling rules ck / dge / drop the e / y as a consonant or vowel
- Sounds of -ed
- Exploring parts of language - adverbs, adjectives, nouns, verbs etc
- Doubling or not when adding -ing, -ed
- Floss rules
- Compound words
- Identifying and naming suffixes
- Identifying and naming prefixes
- Vowel teams
- Root words
- Controlling 'r'
- Diagraphs
- Schwa words
- Ghost diagraphs
- -oo- and -oo- / -au and -ow /
- Hard and soft c and g
- Common subordinating conjunctions
- And much more!!
Themes explored include: achievement, aeroplanes, aviation, bravery, courage, determination, epic journeys, exploration, famous New Zealanders, flying, goals, Gipsy Moth, heroine, Hine-o-te-Rangi, history, inspiration, Jean Batten, Percival Gull, pilots, records, resilience, going for goals, overcoming challenges.
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