PLD with Chrissy Ward learning effective strategies to develop and support learning and teaching of te reo. Jim Madden presents a process to follow up the new learning through games of memory, snap, things students can play together as pairs or in a group. The key is communicative language where students are both identifying and saying the words. IRDP-X: Oral language strategy (Jim Madden) I - Input : - introduce kupu hou to ākonga by getting them to say them after you - words on flashcards, pictures or symbols, some form of graphic or the actual object as the image or object is shown to the ākonga, say the kupu a couple of times and ask ākonga to repeat after you. ”Tēnā, kōrero mai…”- go through until all kupu hou have been introduced - R - Recognition - ask e.g. He pene? to which they will respond Āe/Kāhore. - keep asking until ākonga give you the correct response to show their recognition - D - Decision Making: - show images to ākonga and give them options - e keri ana, e kōh