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Skills available for New Zealand year 5 English curriculum

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New Zealand Curriculum: Level 2 (Listening, Reading, and Viewing) New Zealand Curriculum: Level 2 (Listening, Reading, and Viewing)
New Zealand Curriculum: Level 2 (Speaking, Writing, and Presenting) New Zealand Curriculum: Level 2 (Speaking, Writing, and Presenting)
New Zealand Curriculum: Level 3 (Listening, Reading, and Viewing) New Zealand Curriculum: Level 3 (Listening, Reading, and Viewing)
New Zealand Curriculum: Level 3 (Speaking, Writing, and Presenting) New Zealand Curriculum: Level 3 (Speaking, Writing, and Presenting)

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1 Listening, Reading, and Viewing

1.1 Processes and strategies
- 1.1.1 Select and use sources of information, processes, and strategies with some confidence to identify, form, and express ideas.
  - 1.1.1.a selects and reads texts for enjoyment and personal fulfilment;
  - 1.1.1.b recognises connections between oral, written, and visual language;
  - 1.1.1.c selects and uses sources of information (meaning, structure, visual and grapho-phonic information) and prior knowledge with growing confidence to make sense of increasingly varied and complex texts;
  - 1.1.1.d uses an increasing knowledge of letter clusters, affixes, roots, and compound words to confirm predictions;
  - 1.1.1.e selects and uses processing strategies and an increasing range of comprehension strategies with some understanding and confidence;
  - 1.1.1.f thinks critically about texts with some confidence;
  - 1.1.1.g monitors, self-evaluates, and describes progress with some confidence.
1.2 Purposes and audiences
- 1.2.1 Show some understanding of how texts are shaped for different purposes and audiences.
  - 1.2.1.a recognises how texts are constructed for different purposes, audiences, and situations;
    - Positive and negative connotation (4-GG.2)
    - Positive and negative connotation (5-AA.2)
  - 1.2.1.b understands that texts are created from a particular point of view;
    - Positive and negative connotation (4-GG.2)
    - Positive and negative connotation (5-AA.2)
  - 1.2.1.c evaluates the reliability and usefulness of texts with some confidence.
1.3 Ideas
- 1.3.1 Show some understanding of ideas within, across, and beyond texts.
  - 1.3.1.a uses their personal experience and world and literacy knowledge to make meaning from texts;
  - 1.3.1.b makes meaning of increasingly complex texts by identifying main ideas;
  - 1.3.1.c makes and supports inferences from texts with some independence.
1.4 Language features
- 1.4.1 Show some understanding of how language features are used for effect within and across texts.
1.5 Structure
- 1.5.1 Show some understanding of text structures.
  - 1.5.1.a understands that the order and organisation of words, sentences, paragraphs, and images contribute to text meaning;
  - 1.5.1.b recognises an increasing range of text forms and differences between them.

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1 Listening, Reading, and Viewing

1.1 Processes and strategies

1.1.1 Select and use sources of information, processes, and strategies with some confidence to identify, form, and express ideas.

1.1.1.a selects and reads texts for enjoyment and personal fulfilment;

1.1.1.b recognises connections between oral, written, and visual language;

1.1.1.c selects and uses sources of information (meaning, structure, visual and grapho-phonic information) and prior knowledge with growing confidence to make sense of increasingly varied and complex texts;

1.1.1.d uses an increasing knowledge of letter clusters, affixes, roots, and compound words to confirm predictions;

1.1.1.e selects and uses processing strategies and an increasing range of comprehension strategies with some understanding and confidence;

1.1.1.f thinks critically about texts with some confidence;

1.1.1.g monitors, self-evaluates, and describes progress with some confidence.

1.2 Purposes and audiences

1.2.1 Show some understanding of how texts are shaped for different purposes and audiences.

1.2.1.a recognises how texts are constructed for different purposes, audiences, and situations;

1.2.1.b understands that texts are created from a particular point of view;

1.2.1.c evaluates the reliability and usefulness of texts with some confidence.

1.3 Ideas

1.3.1 Show some understanding of ideas within, across, and beyond texts.

1.3.1.a uses their personal experience and world and literacy knowledge to make meaning from texts;

1.3.1.b makes meaning of increasingly complex texts by identifying main ideas;

1.3.1.c makes and supports inferences from texts with some independence.

1.4 Language features

1.4.1 Show some understanding of how language features are used for effect within and across texts.

1.4.1.a recognises that oral, written, and visual language features can be used for effect;

1.4.1.b uses a large and increasing bank of high-frequency, topic-specific, and personal-content words to make meaning;

1.4.1.c shows an increasing knowledge of the conventions of text;

1.4.1.d recognises that authors have different voices and styles.

1.5 Structure

1.5.1 Show some understanding of text structures.

1.5.1.a understands that the order and organisation of words, sentences, paragraphs, and images contribute to text meaning;

1.5.1.b recognises an increasing range of text forms and differences between them.