Ms Ripley creates a challenge for her class. In teams the children have to learn all they can about the elusive North American tree octopus. Can Jason’s team beat Maia’s and finally get rid of the smug smile on her face and prove once and for all he is smarter than her?

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: competition, evaluating evidence, fact checking, hoax, false information, internet, participating and contributing, quizzes, relating to others, school, sources, teamwork, thinking, websites