Overall Learning Intentions:
Students will be able to identify the key events in the story of Maui discovering fire.
Students will be able to sequence events chronologically in a recount.
Students will use descriptive language and appropriate vocabulary.
Students will include elements of te reo Māori in their writing (e.g., character names, key kupu).
Students will demonstrate an understanding of the purpose of a recount (to retell past events).
Story Starters
Back in time, on a dark, stormy night...
A long time ago...
A long time ago Maui was eating his kai...
1000 years ago in Hawaiki...
If we time traveled back we would see Maui eating his kai...
In the olden days, in a land far away...
To start it off...
Back in the day...