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Useful Websites

TKI Site Literacy Home Page

http://www.tki.org.nz/r/literacy_numeracy/lit_home_e.php

Te Kete Ipurangi (TKI ) is a bilingual portal plus web community, which provides quality assured educational material for teachers, school managers, and the wider education community. The Literacy home page is dedicated to literacy aspects of the Ministry of Education's Literacy Strategy.


Ready To Read Teachers’ Notes

http://www.tki.org.nz/r/literacy_numeracy/professional/teachers_notes/ready_to_read/

Ready to Read is a series of high-interest instructional reading books and related materials written in a range of genres and intended for children aged 5 to 8 years. New titles are published every year. Make use of more new teachers' notes available online for Ready to Read levels magenta through to green.


Ready to Read Teacher Support Material

http://www.tki.org.nz/r/literacy_numeracy/professional/teachers_notes/ready_to_read/index_e.php

Ready to Read is a series of high-interest instructional reading books and related materials written in a range of genres and intended for children aged 5 to 8 years. New titles are published every year.


School Journal Teacher’s Notes - Parts 1, 2, 3-4

http://www.tki.org.nz/r/literacy_numeracy/professional/teachers_notes/school_journal/index_e.php

The School Journal is a magazine-style series published in four parts for students in years 3 to 8. The School Journal is for students to read for their own interest and enjoyment, and for teachers to use as a classroom resource for teaching reading and as a reference source.


Journal Surf Online Catalogue

http://journalsurf.learningmedia.co.nz/

This is the online catalogue of the New Zealand School Journal and other resources. VADEC holds a subscription to this. VADEC staff  please contact M. Hunt in the Media Centre to get the password.


New Zealand Literacy Learning Progressions

http://www.literacyprogressions.org.nz/

The purpose of the draft Literacy Learning Progressions is to provide teachers with a professional tool that shows them what knowledge and skills their students need in order to meet the reading and writing demands of the New Zealand Curriculum.


New Zealand Council for Educational Research

The assessment resource banks are located here.
http://www.nzcer.org.nz/


The New Zealand Council for Educational Research is an independent, educational research organisation that provides educators, students, parents, policy makers and the public with innovative research, analysis and advice.


Thomson Nelson (PM)
Price Milburn /Thomson/Nelson Educational Publishers
The PM Series

http://primary.cengage.com.au/category/479

The web site of the publisher of the PM readers.


Captioning Access New Zealand

http://www.captionmovies.co.nz/index.php

Captioning Access New Zealand was created to drive the captioning issues on behalf of the Deaf Community. It has a vision that Deaf and Hearing impaired people can access captions on TV, cinema movies and DVDs and enjoy the same entertainment as other people e.g. family and friends, workmates.


New Zealand Relay

http://www.nzrelay.co.nz/

The web site of New Zealand’s telecommunication services 
for people who are deaf, hearing-impaired, deaf-blind,
or speech-impaired.


Literacy Site Clerc Center Galludet University

http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/Literacy/index.html

Galludet University is the American site of the world’s only dedicated deaf university. 


Forest Bookshop
Children’s Books with Deaf Characters

http://www.forestbooks.com/pages/Categories/CBD.html

Forest bookshop is a British site that specialises in books, videos, DVDs CD-Roms and software about sign language and deaf issues.