Kilikiti
Then there’s kilikiti. Kee-lee-kee-tee (perfect – top marks this time).
About this resource
Series: School Journal Level 3 November 2018
Reading year level: 5
Category: Fiction
Topics: belonging, community, cricket, culture, humour, identity, kilikiti, language, Pacific, poetry, pronunciation, phonetics, rhyme, Sāmoa, sport, transliteration
Kilikiti
Words by Tusiata Avia
Illustrations by Daron Parton
Have a guess. What could it mean? Ummm ... Kittycat? Kilometre? Kitchenette? Nope! Try cricket (the game, not the grasshopper).
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School Journal Level 3 November 2018
Inside this School Journal are three stories (Suckered; Dangerous Games; Little Fisherman), three articles (Fly Me Up; Listening Eyes, Speaking Hands: The Story of Deaf Education in New Zealand; Hine-o-te-Rangi: The Adventures of Jean Batten), and one poem (Kilikiti).
1 of 7Suckered
Jason had issues with Maia. She was smart – as smart as him, which was part of the problem.
2 of 7Dangerous Games
After successfully capturing Mirtha Dare-Sweetly, super-sleuth kid-detective Minnie Sharp is back on the trail.
3 of 7Little Fisherman
It isn’t that Haylee hates them. She just likes it better when they’re not there: Tom and Tyler, Dayne’s boys.
4 of 7Fly Me Up
“Fly Me Up” explores the artworks of Tiffany Singh, an artist who works with communities to create large, colourful installations that draw attention to social issues”.
5 of 7Listening Eyes Speaking Hands - The Story of Deaf Education
This article explores how attitudes to deafness have changed over time.
6 of 7Hine-o-te-Rangi The Adventures of Jean Batten
In New Zealand, an eighteen-year-old named Jean Batten had a dream.
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