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Why do it?
- Baby will enjoy sharing a book where each page has an interesting sound for the grown-up to make.
- With repetition, baby begins to associate a sound with the picture of the animal or thing that makes it.
- Baby and grown-up are sitting close together and sharing attention.
How to do it
- Get a ‘board’ book with animals, or kinds of transport or anything that makes a noise
- Baby and parent need to be comfortable.
- Baby may want to turn pages — this is fine, it’s play!
- Mum or dad can make the noise that goes with the page they’re looking at with baby.
- When baby goes to turn the page, say, ‘Turn the page’, so the action and the words happen together.
- Joining a library is a very good idea to access lots of different books for free.
Using more reo Māori
Māku e pānui tētahi kōrero ki a koe |
Shall I read you a story? |
Kei hea te pukapuka? |
Where is the book |
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Titiro ki ngā pukapuka |
Look at the books |
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Huriā te wharangi |
Turn the page |
Titiro ki ngā kararehe |
Look at the animals |
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Kei te ki te ngeru meow |
The cat says meow |
Kei te ki te kuri woof! |
The dog says woof! |
Kei te ki te manu - tweet tweet |
The bird says tweet tweet |
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He kau tēnei |
This is a cow |
He aha te tangi o te kau? |
What sound does the cow make? |
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He hipi tenei |
This is a sheep |
Ko ‘baaaa’ te tangi o te hipi |
The sheep says ‘baaaa’ |
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Titiro mai, he aha tēnei? |
Look here, what’s this? |
He waka tūroro tēnei |
This is an ambulance |
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He aha te tangi o te waka tūroro? |
What sound does the ambulance make? |
What sound does the ambulance make? |
What’s that sound? |
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He waka toparere |
A helicopter |
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Whakarongo |
Listen |
Rongo |
Hear |
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Kei te rongo ahau i |
I hear a |
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