Bring action and excitement into your reading programme with this engaging five-day text exploration pack built around the original mentor text, *The Race*.

Designed for Years 3–4, this pack helps students explore how authors use powerful verbs to create movement, energy, and excitement. Through the story of Luca and Mia competing in a school race, students discover how carefully chosen words can help readers visualise action, understand character determination, and become fully immersed in a text.

Across five short, structured lessons, students revisit the text multiple times, developing their understanding of vocabulary, inference, author's purpose, themes, and evidence-based responses. The pack provides rich opportunities to discuss perseverance, effort, resilience, and achievement while building strong reading comprehension skills.

This pack includes:

* Original mentor text
* Five days of structured learning
* Explicit WALTs and success criteria
* Vocabulary and word choice investigations
* Powerful verb analysis activities
* Inference and interpretation tasks
* Theme and author's purpose exploration
* Evidence-based response scaffold
* Student self-reflection pages
* Comprehensive teacher guide with answers and alternative interpretations

Perfect for:

* Whole-class reading
* Guided reading follow-up
* Literacy rotations
* Independent literacy tasks
* Vocabulary instruction
* Explicit comprehension teaching

Students will learn how powerful verbs help authors create action, develop characters, and communicate important themes. By the end of the week, they will be able to identify effective word choices and explain how they contribute to meaning and reader engagement.

Curriculum Focus: Vocabulary Development, Reading Comprehension, Author Craft, Visualisation, Inference, Themes, Evidence-Based Responses

Year Level: Years 3–4

Lesson Length: 15–20 minutes per lesson

Pack Focus: Vocabulary & Word Choice

Week Focus: Powerful Verbs

Theme: Determination