Kyle Mewburn shares her experience of growing up as a transgender girl and explores gender in a way that shows how, despite the challenges and expectations of others, she managed to find a sense of identity and belonging.

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: author, belonging, bravery, break-up, childhood, courage, embarrassment, friendship, gender, identity, inclusive, individuality, inspiration, LGBTQIA+, puberty, rainbow, relationship, relationships and sexuality education, RSE, school, self, sexuality, transgender, wellbeing, writer