"Grandma Joins the All Blacks" - HOT comprehension activities

"Grandma Joins the All Blacks" by Helen McKinlay is a hilarious picture book about a grandma who ends up saving the day by playing for the All Blacks New Zealand rugby team.

This resource includes over 90 pages of hands-on, engaging, high-interest learning activities to support students' learning across the curriculum, about literacy, numeracy (o'clock times), HASS (New Zealand) and HPE (sport - rugby)!

These HOT (higher order thinking) literacy and knowledge-building activities are perfect for celebrating non-stereotypical grandparents and include:

• Innovative interactive notebook templates for the students' writing about the All Blacks, New Zealand and imaginary writing about playing for the All Blacks themselves (interactive notebook templates include - football, silver fern and New Zealand map)
• Word work activities, including inferring meanings, dictionary definitions, synonyms and vocabulary puzzles; overused words - substitutions for words that have been "benched"
• Factual and imaginative writing tasks
• Reading comprehension activities including: making connections; character traits; summarising; questioning; de Bono's thinking hats; close reading; questions/wonderings/connections
• 48 QR Code comprehension question cards, with recording and answer sheets
• Time matching cards for games - matching digital, analogue and word form of o'clock times
• Self-checking maze
• Home reading bookmarks that include new words to learn and reading goals
• A display template of an All Black player for the children's faces to be added to for a classroom mural and creative writing.

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