Pasifika learning materials
Tupu CD 5
This audio CD offers students the opportunity to listen to or read along with stories in Cook Islands Māori, Niue, Sāmoan, Tokelauan, and Tongan. Each story is read in the Pasifika language in which it was first written and in English. The five titles are:
- Taumāta'u by Feana and Sione Tu'akoi (Tongan, item 30684)
- 'O Keila ma Leilani by Lisa Fuemana Foa'i (Sāmoan, item 30923)
- Ko te Porotaka by Maria Samuela (Cook Islands Māori, item 31306)
- Toku Uho by Sally Sutton (Tokelauan, item 31390)
- Tāoga Mahuiga by Lino Nelisi (Niue, item 30686).
These stories will help students to engage with and enjoy spoken language and understand, respond to, and use oral language effectively in a range of contexts. Listening to these recordings will help build confidence and fluency. Taumāta'u is read fluently, in Tongan and in English, by a child. The readers of the other four stories are all adult native speakers.
Item 30927.
Fōlauga Ualoa 2
This issue of the Sāmoan-language magazine for secondary students includes an article about extreme athlete Nathan Fa'avae, stories, an interview with upcoming rap artist Flowz, a review on Savage's first solo CD, and two poems written by young people. This resource, which supports teaching of gagana Sāmoa, is supported by teachers' notes (item 10993).
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Fōlauaga Ualoa 2, item 10992.
Teachers' notes, item 10993.
Distribution
Copies of these resources will be sent in term 2 to schools (with year 1–13 and secondary classes respectively) that have standing orders for learning materials in Pasifika languages.
Standing orders for Pasifika resources
Standing orders for learning materials in Pasifika languages can be established or varied at any time by contacting Customer Services at Learning Media. When requesting a standing order, please specify the number of copies you require in each language (Cook Islands Māori, Niue, Sāmoan, Tokelauan, and Tongan).