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Skills available for New Zealand year 13 English curriculum

Objectives are in black and IXL English skills are in dark green. Hold your mouse over the name of a skill to view a sample question. Click on the name of a skill to practise that skill.

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New Zealand Curriculum: Level 7 (Listening, Reading, and Viewing) New Zealand Curriculum: Level 7 (Listening, Reading, and Viewing)
New Zealand Curriculum: Level 7 (Speaking, Writing, and Presenting) New Zealand Curriculum: Level 7 (Speaking, Writing, and Presenting)
New Zealand Curriculum: Level 8 (Listening, Reading, and Viewing) New Zealand Curriculum: Level 8 (Listening, Reading, and Viewing)
New Zealand Curriculum: Level 8 (Speaking, Writing, and Presenting) New Zealand Curriculum: Level 8 (Speaking, Writing, and Presenting)

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Listening, Reading, and Viewing

Processes and strategies
- Integrate sources of information, processes, and strategies purposefully, confidently, and precisely to identify, form, and express increasingly sophisticated ideas.
  - selects and reads texts for enjoyment and personal fulfilment;
  - recognises, understands, and appreciates the connections between oral, written, and visual language;
  - integrates sources of information and prior knowledge purposefully, confidently, and precisely to make sense of increasingly varied and complex texts;
  - selects and uses appropriate processing and comprehension strategies with confidence and discrimination;
  - thinks critically about texts with understanding and confidence;
  - monitors, self-evaluates, and describes progress, articulating learning with confidence.
Purposes and audiences
- Show a discriminating understanding of how texts are shaped for different purposes and audiences.
  - recognises, understands, and appreciates how texts are constructed for a range of intentions and situations;
  - identifies particular points of view within texts and understands that texts can position a reader;
  - evaluates the reliability and usefulness of texts.
Ideas
- Show a discriminating and insightful understanding of ideas within, across, and beyond texts.
  - makes meaning by perceptively understanding sophisticated ideas;
  - makes connections by analysing, evaluating, and synthesising ideas within and between texts from a range of contexts;
  - understands that there may be multiple readings available within a text;
  - makes and supports inferences from texts independently.
Language features
- Show a discriminating and insightful understanding of how language features are used for effect within and across texts.
Structure
- Show a discriminating understanding of a range of structures.
  - identifies and understands the characteristics and conventions of a range of text forms and appreciates how they contribute to and affect text meaning.

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Listening, Reading, and Viewing

Processes and strategies

Integrate sources of information, processes, and strategies purposefully, confidently, and precisely to identify, form, and express increasingly sophisticated ideas.

selects and reads texts for enjoyment and personal fulfilment;

recognises, understands, and appreciates the connections between oral, written, and visual language;

integrates sources of information and prior knowledge purposefully, confidently, and precisely to make sense of increasingly varied and complex texts;

selects and uses appropriate processing and comprehension strategies with confidence and discrimination;

thinks critically about texts with understanding and confidence;

monitors, self-evaluates, and describes progress, articulating learning with confidence.

Purposes and audiences

Show a discriminating understanding of how texts are shaped for different purposes and audiences.

recognises, understands, and appreciates how texts are constructed for a range of intentions and situations;

identifies particular points of view within texts and understands that texts can position a reader;

evaluates the reliability and usefulness of texts.

Ideas

Show a discriminating and insightful understanding of ideas within, across, and beyond texts.

makes meaning by perceptively understanding sophisticated ideas;

makes connections by analysing, evaluating, and synthesising ideas within and between texts from a range of contexts;

understands that there may be multiple readings available within a text;

makes and supports inferences from texts independently.

Language features

Show a discriminating and insightful understanding of how language features are used for effect within and across texts.

identifies a range of sophisticated oral, written, and visual language features and understands their effects;

uses an increasing vocabulary to make meaning;

understands, analyses, and evaluates how text conventions work together to create meaning and effect;

understands that authors have different voices and styles and appreciates these differences.

Structure

Show a discriminating understanding of a range of structures.

identifies and understands the characteristics and conventions of a range of text forms and appreciates how they contribute to and affect text meaning.