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Te Reo and literacy programmes for Mäori
One of the initiatives of the Tü Tangata philosophy of the Department of Maori Affairs in the late 1970s was the establishment of the Te Köhanga Reo movement in 1977. The primary aim of Te Köhanga Reo is to encourage and increase the development of Mäori spoken language but they also begin pre-reading skills with picture cards and stories in Mäori. The consequence of success in Te Köhanga Reo and continuing education in Mäori has been a huge increase in Mäori text picture books, school readers and educational books generally. One of the most important changes in education generally and specifically teaching reading has been the development of Te Reo Mäori, and there are now over 60 titles in the He Purapura series of readers for five-to eight-year-olds; some of the Ready to Read series have been translated into Mäori, and there are also the He Kohikohinga series for older students; Ngä Körero which are stories from the School Journal translated into Mäori and Ngä Tamariki Iti o Aotearoa , books designed to be read to young children. These series are all produced by Learning Media and are listed in a handbook Te Reo Mäori Resources (1993). (Learning Media has also produced reading materials in Samoan and other Pacific Island languages which are discussed in more detail in the following chapter.)
Literacy among
Mäori children prompted the development of the Reading Tutoring
Programme documented in Pause, Prompt, Praise
(Atvars, Berryman and Glynn, 1995), a trial project implemented by
Mäori for Mäori in the Tauranga area. Surveys like
Wagemaker (1993) highlight the comparatively Few details are known about this late 19th-century photograph,
except that it was taken by the photographer Edward George Child
(fl. 1894-1901), probably in the
Öhingaiti-Rangitïkei area, southwest of
Taihape. Work began in the late 1880s on clearing the heavy bush
in this rugged part of the country, to which access was improved
by the opening of the main trunk railway in 1904. (Edward Child
Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, NZ,
reference number G-32338-1/2-)
[Description: Black and white photograph]
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