Kia ora,

We are getting quite a few questions for a Maori language assignment which involves Maori Readers. The students choose a topic, and need to find readers about their topic, eg. weather, time, seasons etc. There are two methods of finding resources for them.

1. Via a catalogue keyword search for Maori Readers + topic (either in English or Maori)

2. Via a LEARN site that all Education students can access called Pataka Reo. Just ask them to log in to LEARN and access the Pataka Reo site. Then they click on Rauemi Reo (a section at the top of the site). Then scroll to the bottom of the page and they will see three documents about Maori Readers. The first one is about the various series and the grading systems. The second one is level 1 readers split into various topics. The third one features level 2 readers split into topics.

I have printed copies of these 3 documents and put them with the cheat sheets (on curriculum docs, building science concepts etc) to the left of the Education lending desk & also on the whiteboard in the LL office at Education.

So once they have found readers on their topics, then just look them up by title. The Maori Readers are shelved within their series then their author name, usually.

Any questions just contact me.

cheers

Ariana Tikao