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  • I: My Colourful Kite: Nick's Story

    I: My Colourful Kite: Nick's Story

           

    This book features a family whose parent goes away for work.

    • My Colourful Kite: Nick's Story (downloadable, printable version) My Colourful Kite: Nick's Story (downloadable, printable version)

      This version will be fine for your own photocopier printing, however, a higher quality file is being used by the commercial printer.

    • Link to bookshop Link to bookshop

      All eBooks, downloadable (printable) versions of the book, and online educational materials are free. You can also order royalty-free, professionally printed books.

    • Audio

    • Audio read-along version - 'My colourful kite: Nick's story' Audio read-along version - 'My colourful kite: Nick's story'
    • The audio read-along version was read by Eva Raue. Eva was born in Calamba Misamis Occidental in the Philippines. Misamis Occidental is a province located in the region of Northern Mindanao in the Philippines. It's capital city is Oroquieta City where Eva grew up and studied at Stella Maris College. Eva came to Australia as an adult. She is now working in Home Care Industry as a Care Worker to assist our elderly live their life with independence by supporting their needs. In the Philippines there are 120 languages. Eva is trilingual, so she speaks 3 languages (Mindanao Cebuano, her first language, Tagalog, the national language of the Philippines, and English). You can learn to say hello and goodbye in Mindanao Cebuano and Tagalog by listening to the recordings of Eva below.

    • Learn to say 'hello' in Mindanao Cebuano (kumusta) Learn to say 'hello' in Mindanao Cebuano (kumusta)
    • Learn to say goodbye in Mindanao Cebuano (manamilit naku) Learn to say goodbye in Mindanao Cebuano (manamilit naku)
    • Learn to say hello in Tagalog (kamusta) Learn to say hello in Tagalog (kamusta)
    • Learn to say goodbye in Tagalog (paalam) Learn to say goodbye in Tagalog (paalam)
    • Another audio read-along version of 'My Colourful Kite: Nick's Story' Another audio read-along version of 'My Colourful Kite: Nick's Story'

      Kal Newcolm is a volunteer reader for us from Orange, NSW. Kal does voiceovers for a living, often providing audio recordings for those with a vision impairment.

      Creative Commons License
      This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

    • Video

    • Video read-along version of 'My Colourful Kite: Nick's story' Video read-along version of 'My Colourful Kite: Nick's story'
    • Peter Torning is the video reader for this book. Peter grew up in Sydney, where he went to school, then trained as an electrical engineer. He then joined the police force and worked in regional and city postings as well as in specialist investigations. After leaving the police, Peter worked for many years as a consultant training facilitator before becoming a trainer and mentor for start-up businesses. Within this, Peter has also worked for universities as a subject coordinator in management and leadership, as well as a marker and casual lecturer in criminology and education. Before retiring, Peter worked as a project manager in the area of curriculum renewal. He has lived for many years in New England, NSW.

    • Time for Music (Trombone) Time for Music (Trombone)
    • Mapping activity - Nick's Story Mapping activity - Nick's Story
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