Improving pānui skills in te reo Māori#

Mokopuna are learning to read longer texts with better fluency and understanding as they develop their reading skills. 

Mokopuna are learning Te Reo Rangatira in 4 different learning strands called ‘whenu’.

Find out more about whenu.

Te Reo Rangatira whenu

Whenu: Kia Mārama#

Kia Mataara#

Mokopuna need to be reading longer texts with increasing fluency and comprehension.

Ideas for whānau activities#

Pānui tahi

Choose a longer story or chapter book to read together as a whānau. Then take turns reading aloud, encouraging expressive reading with different voices for characters. After reading, act out a scene from the book to deepen comprehension and make it fun!

Read a few paragraphs or a chapter together, then pause and ask: 

• What do you think will happen next?
• Why do you think that?
• What clues in the text helped you make that guess?

Continue reading and see if the predictions were correct. After reading a section of a book, ask your mokopuna to explain to you what happened as if they are the teacher. Encourage them to:

• explain key details
• main ideas
• any tricky words they learned.