When Claire visits her mother’s family in China, tensions rise between her mum and her grandmother and aunties when she finds a present the sisters received when they were children.

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: China, family, history, relationships, sibling rivalry, whānau