Useful Reo Māori language products to support teachers in the classroom...
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Author: Louise McKenzie
The Copy Cats' Activities for Kai
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Author: Louise McKenzie
The Copy Cats' Activies for Ngā Whakahua - Pronunciation
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Author: Louise McKenzie
The Copy Cats' Activities for Ngā Mihi - Greetings.
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Author: Louise McKenzie
The Copy Cats' Activities for Ngā Whakahau - Commands
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Author: Louise McKenzie
The Copy Cats' Activities for Ngā Taonga o te Rūma Kura.
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Author: Louise McKenzie
Buy the full set of Copycats products
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Kei a Wai? (Who has it?) is a board game for teaching Māori language. It uses colourful images, coupled with spoken questions and answers, to systematically build oral skills.
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As an optional extra to go with the Kei a Wai? Colours and Shapes board game, this tape provides you with all your pronunciation needs to play the game.
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Kei a Wai? (Who has it?) is a board game for teaching Māori language. It uses colourful images, coupled with spoken questions and answers, to systematically build oral skills.
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As an optional extra to go with the Kei a Wai? Actions and Activities board game, this tape provides you with all your pronunciation needs to play the game.
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Kei a Wai? (Who has it?) is a board game for teaching Māori language. It uses colourful images, coupled with spoken questions and answers, to systematically build oral skills.
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As an optional extra to go with the Kei a Wai? Numbers and Numerals board game, this tape provides you with all your pronunciation needs to play the game.
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Kei a Wai? (Who has it?) is a board game for teaching Māori language. It uses colourful images, coupled with spoken questions and answers, to systematically build oral skills.
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As an optional extra to go with the Kei a Wai? Positions and Situations board game, this tape provides you with all your pronunciation needs to play the game.
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Kei a Wai? (Who has it?) is a board game for teaching Māori language. It uses colourful images, coupled with spoken questions and answers, to systematically build oral skills.
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The Māori language version of Attribobs. This simple card game is based on matching attributes and encourages critical thinking and reinforces vocabulary skills.
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Healthy Lunches. What do your students have in their lunchboxes?
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Pets. Most children have a pet of some kind in their home - even if it is only a pet rock!
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Feelings. How do you feel today?
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The Family.
One of a series of four Māori language packs containing games and activities to reinforce vocabulary and sentence stems. Sufficient games and activities for your whole class to have hands-on fun at the same time.
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Author: Pānia Papa
"Iti noa, he pito mata"
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First Thousand Words in Māori
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Kei roto katoa ngā tūāhua titiro ā-kanohi tae noa ki ngā kori tinana.
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Author: Te Rōpū Huia
Te Kete Kupu contains the 300 most frequently used words in Māori with sentences as examples of how they are often used. The large text and colourful illustrations aid the reader's learning.
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He pukapuka kupu tuatahi tēnei mā te tamaiti nohinohi, e whakaatu atu ana, e whakamārama atu ana i te āhua o ngā kupu pērā i te rahi, i te paku, i te teitei me ētahi atu!
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Author: Katerina Mataira
A Māori Children's Picture Dictionary teaches young children a basic Māori vocabulary using topics, text and illustrations that reflect Māori social and cultural situations. With simple exercises at the bottom of each page to assist teachers and parents to talk about each topic with their children, this dictionary is an important tool for young children as they begin to recognise words and learn te reo Māori.
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I tīmata mai tōku oranga i te kūao poraka iti, engari pēhea i huri ai ahau hei poraka ātaahua? Hurihia ngā whārangi ka mātaki i ahau e tipu ana!
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Author: Robyn Kahukiwa
He kōtiro Māori a Mata i whāngaia ai e tētahi whānau Pākehā. He iti noa tōna mōhio mō tōna taha Māori. Heoi, i tētahi rā, ka toro atu te karaehe o Mata ki tētahi whare pupuri taonga.
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Author: Melanie Drewery
Mai i te hoipū ki ngā ihu kī te hūpē, kei a Koro 'he rongoā hei whakaora i tēnā!'
Ka pā rānei ki ētahi atu - tōna ngākau nui atu ki te rongoā Māori?
He pūrākau, he pihinga tīmatanga tēnei mō te rongoā Māori.
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Author: John Moorfield
This dictionary and index comprises a selection of modern and everyday language that will be extremely useful for learners of the Māori language. It has a broader scope than traditional dictionaries, so as well as the words one would usually expect in a dictionary, it also includes:
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Author: Te Taura Whiri i Te Reo
Designed to help promote Māori as a living language, this dictionary includes 5,500 new words developed by the Māori Language Commission since 1987, and 3,000 previously unpublished Māori equivalents for English terms. It covers vocabulary from a wide range of areas, including health, science, mathematics, administration, education, and recreation.
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"A long-awaited dictionary with headwords, definitions, synonyms, and passives wholly in te reo Māori, Tirohia Kimihia will be welcomed by both fluent speakers and learners of te reo Māori. Teachers can use it to support literacy and language development for students aged 8-12 years. Students can use it to enrich their vocabulary, develop their dictionary and research skills, check spellings and meanings of words, or simply take pleasure in exploring words in te reo Maori.
"Ko Tirohia Kimihia te papakupu tuatahi kua tuhia ki te reo Māori anake mā ngā tamariki. He papakupu tēnei mā ngā ākonga e 8-12 ngā tau te pakeke, kei ngā whakaakoranga reo Māori.
Neke atu i te rima tau te pukapuka nei e whakawhanaketia ana, ā, e takea mai ana hoki i ngā mahi rangahau. Āhua 3500 ngā kupu kei roto, 6500 ngā whakamārama."
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Haere atu i te Ao ki ngā tōpito o te Ao Tukupū kore e mōhiotia.
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Author: Pānia Papa
Iti noa, he pito mata
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Author: Pānia Papa
Iti noa, he pito mata
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Author: H.M Ngata
POCKET EDITION
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Author: H.M Ngata
The first dictionary to offer an extensive selection of English to Māori headwords, the Ngata dictionary illustrates their use in sentences and phrases drawn from a wide range of contemporary and traditional contexts. It is a concise English-Māori dictionary, which is explicitly, but not exclusively, based on Ngāti Porou and East Coast dialect and idiom.
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Author: H.M Mead & N Grove
This unique collection of more than 2,500 pepeha, "sayings of the ancestors, " were gathered and compiled from all over New Zealand over a 20-year period.
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Author: Bruce Biggs
First published in 1981, this dictionary was designed as a comprehensive finder-list.
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Author: Cleve Barlow
n this essential guide, Cleve Barlow defines and discusses seventy important concepts in Māori culture. Words as familiar to most Pākehā as aroha, marae, and tapu, or as unfamiliar as aitua, parekawakawa, and urupā.
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Author: Merata Kawharu
Tāhuhu Kōrero is a bilingual collection of pepeha and whakataukī - Māori proverbs and sayings - from Te Taitokerau region, which stretches from Auckland to Cape Reinga. Pepeha and the longer whakataukī are passed down the generations to capture key moments in history, important places and celebrated ancestors. They are also powerful metaphors for human behaviour.
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He Pātaka Kupu: te kai a te rangatira is a taonga - a landmark Māori-only language resource, compiled out of seven years' research by the Māori Language Commission. Containing almost 24,000 entries, it is a comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of the Māori language, for proficient Māori speakers. For each entry, the dictionary gives the atua category, parts of speech, definitions, examples of the word used in context, and an etymology of the word, drawing on a wide corpus of written material in te reo.
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Author: P.M Ryan
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A beautifully colourful wharenui. Remove the wooden pieces to reveal the Māori name. A fun, interactive way to learn!
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A handcrafted wooden puzzle with crisp, clear colours of weather pictures and words.
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Dive into learning with Sea-life, Ngā Ika - Ngārara o te Moana, the handcrafted puzzle suitable for children aged 1-10 years about New Zealand's native sea life. A bi-lingual product.
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A handcrafted wooden puzzle with large pieces suitable for under 5's.
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A hand-crafted wooden puzzle with good-sized pieces perfect for little hands. The Māori word for each piece is screened onto the backing board.
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Magnetic weather pictures and words.
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Themed magnetic pieces. Dive into learning with Sea-life, Ngā Ika - Ngārara o te Moana, the handcrafted pieces that teach children aged 1 -10 years about New Zealand's native sea life.
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12 handcrafted magnetic pieces showing the months of the year in transliterated form - Hanuere, Pēpuere, Māehe...
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12 handcrafted magnetic pieces showing the months of the year using kupu from Te Taura Whiri i te reo Māori - Kohitātea, Hui Tanguru, Poutū te rangi ...
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Red magnetic alphabet pieces with additional vowel pieces to create simple Māori words. 20 pieces.
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Handcrafted magnetic days of the week to help learn and read the days in Māori. Days are the transliterations of English ie Mane, Tūrei...
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Have fun learning the days of the week - reading, sequencing, chanting, singing. Seven (7) handcrafted wooden magnetic pieces showing days of the week - Rāhina, Rātū, Rāapa...
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A favourite Kiwi carol and a must for the Christmas season, let these magnetic pieces guide you as you sing 'A Pūkeko in a Ponga Tree' (to the tune of 'Twelve Days of Christmas') with your children.
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This 11 piece magnetic set displays the written word for the numbers from 'kore' to 'tekau'.
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33 piece magnetic set including numbers in words from 'kore' to 'tekau'. Numerals and bright pictorial number sets complete this fabulous teaching and learning resource.
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Finalist, Best Children's Album, 1998 NZ Music Awards. Learn songs in Māori as you keep fit to these exercise & fitness songs.
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Māori language songs supporting the stories of Rangi and Papa. A real treasure for our children.
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Winner Best Children's Album, 1995 NZ Music Awards.
The simplicity of these songs appeals to young children and beginners in the Māori language. There are five fresh, original songs and four well-known waiata on this tape. Instrumental versions on Side Two encourage other activities such as karaoke-style group singing and movement.
Songbook (with translations, melody lines and guitar chords, teaching notes and large word sheets) is available separately.
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Songbook to go with Ngā Pihi 1 CD, with translations, melody lines and guitar chords, teaching notes and large word sheets.
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Companion CD to Ngā Pihi 1, joint award-winner in the NZ Music Awards 1995. More great songs in Māori.
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Ngā Pihi 2 songbook to go with Ngā Pihi 2 CD with translations, melody lines and guitar chords, teaching notes and large word sheets.
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Ngā Pihi 3 features eight delightful new songs, and four fresh arrangements of traditional waiata. The waiata are easy to learn and sing, teaching Māori language through music. The music also communicates the Māori way of life, both traditional and contemporary, and this knowledge is further extended in the songbook, where each waiata is explained.
This latest in the Ngā Pihi series features many young singers, thanks to Lester Mohi and his class at Glenview School Porirua, and vocalists Norton Kahu and Olivia Reid. These youthful voices brim over with enthusiasm and charm. Lester also performs on the album, together with Vicky Teariki.
The songbook is available separately.
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To go with the Ngā Pihi 3 CD. These waiata are easy to learn and sing, teaching Māori language through music. Each waiata is also explained.
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Easy listening CDs for our littlies.
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Author: Hirini Melbourne
"Winner, Non-Fiction Category, NZ Post Children's Book Awards, 2000
Hirini Melbourne's collection of waiata about the forest world, written over the last twenty years, is beautifully presented in this unique CD and book set. The waiata celebrate the world of te wao nui a Tāne and are gloriously complemented by Te Maari Gardiner's illustrations, which evoke the tranquility of New Zealand's native forest. This is truly a treasure to share with your children and family."
"He rauemi tino ataahua tēnei kohinga waiata a Hirini Melbourne. Hāngai tonu te katoa ki te wao nui a Tāne. Ko nga waiata nei he tohu whakamahara mō ngā tipuranga a Tānemāhuta mai i te timatanga o te rā ki te mutunga.
Ngā mahi toi nā Te Maari Gardiner. Nā āna mahi mīharo ka kitea te hononga o ngā kupu waiata nei ki te taha tinana o Te Wao Nui a Tāne. He taonga kahurangi tēnei mahau rātou ko ō tātou tamariki mokopuna."
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Tītītōrea means Rhythm Sticks. This CD was developed for children to sing along with the song wall charts "E Papa and Poupou Tītītōrea" (in the Posters category). We have added an instruction leaflet for students to learn to make their own rākau sticks.
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This 50 minute VHS video is a delightful mix of waiata and poetry in Māori and English. The visuals focus on ordinary New Zealand children interacting with their environment, while the songs explore typical childhood activities. You may have seen "He aha te tangi?", "Hutupōro" and "Ngā Wā o te Tau" on morning television.
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A Māori language dance and drama series for children. This can be used as a teaching aid or as entertainment.
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Author: Hirini Melbourne
This CD is an excellent resource for children and students of Te Reo. It promotes and supports Māori language programmes in schools, with teacher notes available in both Māori and English.
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Ko te haututū tuatahi o te ao, ko Uēpoto. Ko te hunga ui mākihoi nei, he uri whakaheke nānā.
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Children's stories about our native birds. Hours of enjoyable and funny stories from our forests. Another tāonga.
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Author: Pānia Papa
"Iti noa, he pito mata"
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This is a unique poster book written in Māori and English. Wall charts include the NZ Anthem, the well-known haka Ka Mate, and much more. The A4 pages are perforated so you can hang them on your wall!!
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This A2 Laminated Wall Chart displays colours written in Māori and English, that will help familiarise students to talk about colours in either language.
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Beautifully illustrated with New Zealand themes and icons to help children learn their alphabet.
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Karakia (Prayer) are a very important aspect of Māori culture. This poster displays a simple karakia for preparing for the day's activities - written in English and Māori.
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A bi-lingual poster of The Lord's Prayer, said throughout the world to give acknowledgement to the great Creator of all.
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A bright and colourful laminated poster, to familiarise students with talking about numbers in Māori.
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Beautifully illustrated with New Zealand themes and icons to help children learn their numbers.
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A laminated poster of the days of the week. This bright, colourful poster presents 3 lists of the days of the week, showing the English names as well as transliterations and those names offered by the Māori Language Commission - Te Taura Whiri i te Reo.
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The Poupou Tītītōrea song was developed for children to sing with the Tītītōrea CD. You can even have fun composing your own actions to this by following the little scroll we give you free!!!
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This is filled with video, animations, music and voice sound bytes. This product introduces students to te reo Māori sentence structure, offering inter-active, student-centred, and self-paced learning.
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Māui’s Spell is a Māori language interactive computer game for beginners -and is the most fun you can have learning te reo Māori. Players follow Māui on an adventurous romp through modern-day Aotearoa (New Zealand), increasing their reo Māori skills along the way.
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Author: Pānia Papa
"Iti noa, he pito mata"
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Māori language stories for everyone. A real treasure. Some of our own stories retold in simple 2D animation.
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This pack contains 40 different cards on Animals and Facial Expressions. These bright and cheerful cards are written in English and Māori. Use to encourage fun and creative games of learning. Combine it with the flashcards pad, and children have Wharewhare - Housie - cards to match.
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10 Maori/English Proverbs and 10 world wide sayings contained in a grass kit. Purchase for someone that may need guidance in their lives, ask them to ask their spirit guide for guidance and then choose a card for the day.
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This pack contains 40 different cards on Shapes, Colours and Numbers. These bi-lingual cards are bright and cheerful, and can be used to encourage fun and creative learning games. Combine with the flashcards pad and you have the matching cards to play Wharewhare - Housie.
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Use the flashcard pad with two packs of flashcards - Ngā Kararehe me Ngā Āhua o te Mata, and Ngā Āhua, Ngā Tae, Ngā Tatau - to create learning through the fun game of Housie and instead of calling “House” children can call “Whare".
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