If you’re like me, you’ll have family that lives in two countries. You will have met them so infrequently that parts of you have to be reintroduced each time: your age, friends, and favourite subjects. You know so little about each other, but still, you’re family. When you’re together, you discover what this word really means.

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: belonging, culture, family, identity, Malaysia, relationships, whānau