: Ngä Pätai mö te Kiwi — Kiwi Questions
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Approach: One to one
Focus: Developing questions on a topic. 
Resources: 2 pictures of kiwi, recording book.  
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Questions / instructions: 
Hand student pictures of kiwi. 
Here is a picture of a kiwi and an x-ray of a kiwi.
If you were going to give a talk to your class about the
x-ray picture, you would need to have good information.
What are 3 really useful questions you could ask an expert on kiwis, so that you would have good information for a talk about the x-ray picture?
I’ll write down your questions for you.
Record student responses.
After the 3 things have been written, say:
I’ll read out what I’ve written down. If there is anything you want to change, tell me and I’ll write it down.   		Hoatu te whakaahua o te kiwi ki te äkonga.
Anei te whakaahua me te whakaata roto [x-ray] o tëtahi kiwi.
Mehemea, ka körero koe ki tö karaehe mö te whakaata roto me tino möhio koe ki tö kaupapa.
He aha ngä tino pätai e toru hei pätai mäu ki tëtahi tangata matatau ki ngä kiwi. Mä reira ka whiwhi tino möhio koe mö tö körero, mö te whakaata roto?
Mäku ö pätai e tuhi.
Tuhia ngä pätai a te äkonga.
Ä muri o te tuhinga o ngä pätai e toru, me kï:
Ka pänuitia e au, ënei kua tuhia. Mënä ka hiahia koe ki te whakarerekë, körero mai, kia tuhia ai e au.

% responses
GEd
MI
First question:  clear question about kiwis
related to x-ray
62 66
not related to x-ray
34 29
Second question:  clear question about kiwis
related to x-ray
54 43
not related to x-ray
42 50
Third question:   clear question about kiwis
related to x-ray
43 45
not related to x-ray
48 46
How much useful information are the questions likely to produce?
lots
14 0
a moderate amount
49 34
just 3 specific facts
33 57
less than that
4 9
Total score:
8–9
21 2
6–7
46 61
4–5
28 28
  2–3
4 4
0–1
1 5
Commentary:
The results achieved by Mäori students in general education (GEd) settings and students in Mäori immersion (MI) settings were not statistically significantly different.
 
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