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Social & Emotional
Children growing social and emotional competence, engagement and learning.
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Connected Relationships & Caring for Others
Overview
1. Lay the Groundwork
2. Notice and Recognise
3. Respond
4. Related Assessments
Emotional Awareness, Regulation and Spiritual Connectedness
Overview
1. Lay the Groundwork
2. Notice and Recognise
3. Respond
4. Related Assessments
Agency & Adaptability
Overview
1. Lay the Groundwork
2. Notice and Recognise
3. Respond
4. Related Assessments
Social Inclusion & Action
Overview
1. Lay the Groundwork
2. Notice and Recognise
3. Respond
4. Related Assessments
Oral Language & Literacy
Oral Language & Literacy
Kaiako strengthening children’s knowledge and use of languages and symbols.
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Understanding & Using Language
Overview
1. Lay the Groundwork
2. Notice and Recognise
3. Respond
4. Related Assessments
Emergent Literacy
Overview
1. Lay the Groundwork
2. Notice and Recognise
3. Respond
4. Related Assessments
Forms & Functions of Literacy
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1. Lay the Groundwork
2. Notice and Recognise
3. Respond
4. Related Assessments
Learning an Additional Language
Overview
1. Lay the Groundwork
2. Notice and Recognise
3. Respond
4. Related Assessments
Maths
Maths
Kaiako strengthening children's interest and knowledge to use maths
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Space & Measurement
Overview
1. Lay the Groundwork
2. Notice and Recognise
3. Respond
4. Related Assessments
Number & Measurement
Overview
1. Lay the Groundwork
2. Notice and Recognise
3. Respond
4. Related Assessments
Pattern & Relationships
Overview
1. Lay the Groundwork
2. Notice and Recognise
3. Respond
4. Related Assessments
Create & Communicate Maths
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1. Lay the Groundwork
2. Notice and Recognise
3. Respond
4. Related Assessments
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Examples of kaiako using Kōwhiti Whakapae to enhance assessment through noticing and recognising children’s capabilities and responding through practice.
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Assessment Examples
Examples of kaiako using Kōwhiti Whakapae to enhance assessment through noticing and recognising children’s capabilities and responding through practice.
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Tia connects with te taiao
This series of four stories follows Tia, who is four years old and attends her local kindergarten.
Space & Measurement
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Maths
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Maia’s growing sense of belonging
The following three stories are about Maia, who is two years old and attends an early learning centre.
Number & Measurement
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Maths
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Felix’s love of animals
The following three stories are about Felix, who is twenty-two months old and attends playcentre two days a week.
Pattern & Relationships
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Maths
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Aria makes connections
The following three stories are about Aria, who is three years old and attends an early learning centre.
Create & Communicate Maths
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Oral Language & Literacy
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Nisrine’s favourite foods
This sequence of three stories follows three-and-a-half-year-old Nisrine whose first language is Arabic.
Learning an Additional Language
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Oral Language & Literacy
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Maya loves waiata
This series of stories follows baby Maya from 9 to 22 months of age while attending a full-day early childhood setting.
Forms & Functions of Literacy
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Oral Language & Literacy
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Sadie’s writing
This series of four stories follow Sadie, a curious and creative four-year-old.
Emergent Literacy
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Oral Language & Literacy
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Billie starts to talk
This series of three stories is about Billie who has attended an ECE centre for 20 hours a week from 6 months old.
Understanding & Using Language
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Social & Emotional
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Transitions for Louie
This series of five stories is about three-year old Louie who attends kindergarten for four months after moving to NZ.
Emotional Awareness, Regulation and Spiritual Connectedness
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Social & Emotional
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Mele’s kai time
The following three learning stories are about Mele, who is ten months old and attends home-based childcare.
Agency & Adaptability
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Social & Emotional
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Jonas' identity
The following four stories focus on Jonas who is four years old, identifies as a boy, and attends his local playcentre.
Social Inclusion & Action
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A new place for Kahu
This sequence of five learning stories follows Kahu who is sixteen months old and attends her local childcare centre.
Connected Relationships & Caring for Others
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