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