Homai Early Childhood Centre is producing interactive story boxes for ākonga, accommodating varying levels of vision skills. We use cultural, natural and classical early childhood stories currently of interest to ākonga and whānau, adding tactile materials and real objects for ākonga to explore.
One of the examples includes tactile kites for the storybook: The Seven Kites of Matariki. The visual and tactile elements supported ākonga understanding and interaction with the story. While reading the story and describing the individual kites, ākonga had a chance to experience the tactile differences between varying kites.
Ākonga also held on to the handles of the kites and acted out the story, helping the kites glide into the pre-dawn sky.
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