Teaching Resources
The Teaching Resources Library contains books & other resources to assist in preparation and planning for teaching and for use in schools and early childhood centres during teaching practice.
The Teaching Resources Library has the following resources, which are suitable from pre-school through to Year 13 :
- Fiction
- Non-fiction
- Picture books
- Pictures/posters
- Teaching resources - theory and practical activities
- Te Reo collection
- School Journals collection
- English Language Readers
- Māori Language Readers
- Pacific Language Readers - includes Cook Islands Māori, Niuean, Samoan, Tokelauan and Tongan
- DVD and CD collection
It is Teaching Resources Library policy to purchase from a variety of New Zealand and international children’s book awards.
School Journals
School journals are published by the Ministry of Education and there are several different series available. The key series are The School Journal, Junior Journal, School Journal Story Library and Connected (which is located in the Dewey non-fiction collection). Teacher's Guides, where available, are shelved next to the relevant box.
The content of these series can be searched from the online database Journal Surf.
Readers
The Readers Collection contains books which have been written for the general purpose of teaching children to read. Most of the books in this collection are designed for use by children with a reading age between 5 and 10 years, with interest levels between 5 and 15 years. There are examples of British, American, Australian and Pacific Island readers, as well as examples from all series published in New Zealand.
The English language readers have a three level call number code:
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Line
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Explanation
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Example
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Explanation
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1
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Reading level
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01MAG
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Early emergent
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2
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Code for series to which the book belongs
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SUN
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Sunshine Books series
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3
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First 3 letters of the title of the book
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CRO
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Crocodiles crunching crackers
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The boxes in which they are kept are colour-coded to match the reading ability levels on the Colour Wheel. Teacher's Guides are shelved at the end of the English Reader Collection.
There are a number of series, some easy, some harder. They are not graded according to the colour wheel as the English readers are. Books in the new series, Nga Kete Korero, have their own reading levels system. There are overall Teacher's Guides and posters shelved at the beginning of the collection. Individual Teacher's Guides, where they exist, are shelved in the same box with the readers they relate to.
The Māori language readers are coded in two ways - like this for Journals:
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Line
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Explanation
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Example
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Explanation
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1
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Code for series to which the book belongs
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KOH
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He Kohikohinga series
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2
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Volume number
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10
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Consecutive issues
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And like this for individual publications:
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Line
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Explanation
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Example
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Explanation
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1
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Code for series to which the book belongs
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PUR
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He Purapura series
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2
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First 3 letters of the title of the book
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KOI
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Koia Tena
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