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Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori - MĀORI LANGUAGE COMMISSION (Web). This site has awesome posters, cards, pamphlets, banners, a graphic novel, and engaging infographics that you can download, print, or distribute electronically. These resources are great for wall displays in school, events, signs around the house to help your children learn Te Reo, or just small cards for yourself as prompts to help you learn a few more words or phrases in Te Reo Māori. There’s surely something for everyone here.
He Reo Tupu, He Reo Ora (Web) a multi-media resource to support the teaching and learning of te reo Māori. Contains very good resource sheets with bingo cards and worksheets, which use animation images that can be used in multiple ways.
This planning and professional development material is designed to be used at whole-school, syndicate, or individual teacher level, to help implement Te Aho Arataki. It includes: 8 unit plans that promote a task-based approach to teaching and learning te reo Māori (with tasks and activities at different levels of complexity); assessment information; information on second-language learning, the relationship between language and culture, pronunciation, and engaging whānau; useful classroom language; references; and supplementary resources. A DVD is also available from Down the Back of the Chair.
WICKED interactives (web) Explore the great interactive bi-lingual learning games to help with learning, writing, science, and maths. There are excellent English language versions of Māori themed interactives, based on the movements of native birds and the use of the traditional taiaha, information pertaining to the Matariki constellation, making a hāngī and observing the science of the hāngī process, and a bilingual interactive to learn about different parts of a wharenui. Check out the spelling games and other interactive activities to help with writing; do Maths activities to help improve number skills; try out interactives about Earth - what it looks like, what it's made of, and what happens to it; find out about people and places in the South Pacific or try an activity in a Pasifika language.
Interactives include: Pasifika Te Reo Māori Māori themed interactives Science Maths and Literacy
Quizlet (web) Sample Quizlet of Te Reo Māori cards created by teacher Jocasta Neale, that offers an example of flashcards, practice spelling, play learning games, tests of knowledge, collaborate with other students, and an interactive game.
Kiwa Digital (web, iOS) Beautifully illustrated bilingual readers available as apps to download free. Contains links to download graphic novels, comic book images with text, animations and engaging resources which will appeal to reluctant readers as well. Many of the resources were produced with the support of Mā te Reo and Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori to promote the use of te reo Māori in Aotearoa.
Sock Puppets (web, iOS). Sock Puppets lets ākonga create their our own lip-synched videos (for example in Te Reo Māori) and share them on Facebook and YouTube. Add Puppets, props, scenery, and backgrounds and start creating. Hit the record button and the puppets automatically lip-synch to your voice, and the scrubbing function modulates the student’s voice into an anonymous sounding voice. The short video version is free, or you can buy the app for more interactive functions (such as creating your own backgrounds and increased recording lengths).
Hana (web) A multi-media collection of superbly illustrated story telling resources based on bilingual Māori animated and illustrated clips. Some include video resources, an audio CD of waiata and story, books, a textless large-format book, a web based resource and CD-Rom (available to schools in Aotearoa on request at Down the Back of the Chair ).
Te Ao Hurihuri contains an engaging interactive component comprises a talking book, winter and summer night sky charts, a lunar planting and fishing guide, song lyrics, and a music mixer (great for te reo Māori activity)
Te Aka Matua Pangarau (iOS) This app in te reo Māori helps ākonga to practice and consolidate their knowledge in Mathematics, at stage 4 or 5. Students can play games from different parts of the motu (island) as they complete 3 levels of Meka Matua (Basic Facts), Uara Tū (Place Value) and Tauira me te Pānga (Patterns and Relationships). There are also two new games - Te Whare Hākinakina (sports ground) where you have a couple of backgrounds to choose from (rugby field or netball court). This game will teach ākonga about sequencing up to 100,000. The second game is Te Pāmu (forest) featuring some of New Zealand's native birds flying around. In this game ākonga will learn skip counting, repeat addition, multiplication and division.
Te Whakaipurangi Rauemi (Web) the storehouse of resources for teachers, designed to be effective in promoting language learning and to support Te Aho Arataki Marau mō te Ako i Te Reo Māori - Kura Auraki and Te Reo Māori in the Māori language curriculum. Contains links that are designed to give you background information to assist with your teaching, presented in a concise, accessible way. The resources are all based on current language teaching theory and practice. Links are made to the achievement objectives in Te Aho Arataki Marau mō te Ako i Te Reo Māori - Kura Auraki.
These materials can be cut and pasted in an effort to adapt the various items to suit individual needs (eg: a picture used in one task can be used for another, or that a checklist can be altered to suit the individual needs for each class).
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