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Latest HAR a hit with teenagers and Upper Primary!
HAR 14 (Big Man Grab Sister) and HAR 15 (Get that Fat Perentie) have been published and are already sold out..so we are printing a second batch! We have put the stories to music and created several written classroom activities to enhance this exciting oral language learning experience. Initial classroom trials have been very successful.…
Rhyme Time with the Honey Ant Readers
Rhymes and jingles, particularly when put to music, are a terrific, fun and very successful way of teaching oral English, so we will be putting rhymes on this website as a resource for teachers this year. Aboriginal English speakers have difficulty with many Standard Australian English sounds, as they do not use them in their Indigenous…
Card Sets for Indigenous Learners
Wow, the new card sets are terrific! We have made them smaller (9.5 x 9.7cms) so that they fit snugly into a little hand and they now come in a cute white box. As people are finding that they need more than one set to play games such as snap, matching or memory games we have decided to discount…
The Fred Hollows Foundation
“From the perspective of the Foundation – HAR ticks several significant boxes. The Foundation works with remote communities and aims to build capacity. It is important that the basic recognition of the differences which exists for Indigenous people who speak a different language and who are learning to speak English as their second, third or…
Editor
We all wish our terrific editor, Rosemary Butler, a speedy recovery. We miss her vital input into the books and can’t wait to have her back spotting errors and making fabulous suggestions again! We think of you and pray for you constantly, Rosemary. We’ll miss you at the launch, but know you’ll be with us in spirit…
Book Launch
The Northern Territory Goverment State Library hosted the official launch of The Honey Ant Readers on the 1st September at 4.10pm in Parliament House, Darwin. Minister Karl Hampton introduced the author and praised the HAR as something very much needed in Indigenous education, and long overdue.
Luritja/English song: nana dig, kami tjawani.
Our Song in English and Language, translated by Yr 5 student, Amber: nana dig, kami tjawani. nana, nana, nana dig, kami, kami, kami tjawani, dig in the red sand, tjawani parna, and when you find an ant real BIG mantjini tjala, mantjini tjala, grab it with your hand. mantang-ku mantjini tjala
Yeperenye Yeye Magazine, June 2010
Child care staff; Yeperenye Yeye Magazine June 2010: “The children find the stories in the HAR very interesting and love the songs in the books”. Preschool teacher, Yeperenye Yeye Magazine June 2010: “The HAR, by Margaret James, has been our focus of studies since the beginning of the year. Children enjoy looking at the pictures…
Honey Ant Readers take Centre Stage in Middle School.
Middle school students have become translators of the HAR series. With Western and Central Arrernte, as well as Luritja and Pitjantjatjara language groups in the class, students have commenced translating the first 5 books of the HAR series. As students become intimately involved with the text of each HAR book they have discovered that there are some…