Te kairuku toa

This is a short poem describing a dive by a champion diver.

Ngā hononga ki te marautanga

Te Reo Māori i roto i te Marautanga o Aotearoa (wh. 59, 67, 76, 85, 94, me 102)


	Whenu	Kōeke	Pūkenga
1.	Whakarongo (Kōrero)	2	Ko te tāutu i ngā kupu matua o roto i ngā tūmomo kōrero māmā.
2.	Kōrero (Whakarongo)	2	Ko te whakapuaki kōrero pohewa.
3.	Pānui (Tuhituhi)	2	Ko te tāutu i ngā kaupapa matua, i ngā ariā matua o ngā tuhinga poto.
4.	Tuhituhi (Pānui)	2	Ko te tuhi pūrongo poto.
5.	Mātakitaki (Whakaatu)	2	Ko te tāutu i te hononga o ngā āhuatanga reo ā-waha ki ērā atu āhuatanga o tētahi tuhinga.
6.	Whakaatu (Mātakitaki)	2	Ko te whai wāhi atu ki ngā whakaaturanga

Tell the students you are going to read the poem aloud to them without them seeing it and that they are to listen carefully to identify any words that are not key words. After you have done this, let the students see the poem and discuss with them why almost every word is a key word.
The students imagine they are the champion diver. In pairs, they tell each other what they imagine it felt like to do the dive that is described in the poem.
The students read this and the other two poems ('Ka pai ngā tau' and 'Pītakataka') and identify a common theme or themes. Discuss the themes they identify.
Using all of the words from the poem, the students write a short newspaper report about the champion diver's winning dive.
Tell the students to read the poem silently, looking carefully at its form – such things as its shape, the number and length of the lines, the use of upper and lower case letters. Discuss what they think the poet wanted to achieve by combining these features in the text.
The class is to memorise the poem and work out a set of actions to go with it. They recite it in unison (choral recitation) while performing the actions.