Notes

The girl in this story uses her calculator to do addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication, but she has one unexpected use for it, as young readers will discover on the last page. Nga Kete Korero is a core programme of sequential early readers and support materials designed for children, from emergent to fluency stages who are learning to read Maori. The four levels are Harakeke, Kiekie, Pingao, and Miro, with sublevels indicated by the five vowels in ascending order of difficulty.