Matiora is busking at a local shopping mall in an effort to save money to buy his mother a special present. All is going well until some children from school turn up.

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: bullying, busking, classical music, family, friendship, music, orchestras, responsibility, rules, tenors, violin, getting on and falling out, relationships, courage, belonging.