New Zealand

Listening, Reading, and Viewing

• Processes and strategies

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

    • selects and reads texts for enjoyment and personal fulfilment;

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

      • Correct errors in everyday use (10-M.5)
      • Correct errors in everyday use (11-M.5)
      • Correct errors in everyday use (12-K.5)

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

      • Domain-specific vocabulary in context: science and technical subjects (12-S.4)

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

    • thinks critically about texts with understanding and confidence;

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

• Purposes and audiences

  • Show an understanding of how texts are shaped for different purposes and audiences.

    • recognises, understands, and considers how texts are constructed for a range of purposes, audiences, and situations;

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

      • Distinguish facts from opinions (10-H.1)
      • Identify appeals to ethos, pathos and logos in advertisements (10-I.1)
      • Distinguish facts from opinions (11-H.1)
      • Identify appeals to ethos, pathos and logos in advertisements (11-I.1)
      • Distinguish facts from opinions (12-H.1)
      • Identify appeals to ethos, pathos and logos in advertisements (12-I.1)

    • evaluates the reliability and usefulness of texts with confidence.

• Ideas

  • Show an understanding of ideas within, across, and beyond texts.

    • makes meaning by understanding increasingly comprehensive ideas in texts and the links between them;

      • Order topics from broadest to narrowest (10-F.1)
      • Organise information by main idea (10-F.2)
      • Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea (10-G.1)
      • Distinguish facts from opinions (10-H.1)
      • Choose the best evidence to support a claim (10-H.3)
      • Identify supporting evidence in a text (10-H.4)
      • Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim (10-H.6)
      • Order topics from broadest to narrowest (11-F.1)
      • Organise information by main idea (11-F.2)
      • Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea (11-G.1)
      • Distinguish facts from opinions (11-H.1)
      • Choose the best evidence to support a claim (11-H.3)
      • Identify supporting evidence in a text (11-H.4)
      • Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim (11-H.6)
      • Order topics from broadest to narrowest (12-F.1)
      • Organise information by main idea (12-F.2)
      • Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea (12-G.1)
      • Distinguish facts from opinions (12-H.1)
      • Choose the best evidence to support a claim (12-H.3)
      • Identify supporting evidence in a text (12-H.4)
      • Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim (12-H.6)

    • makes connections by exploring ideas within and between texts from a range of contexts;

    • recognises that there may be more than one reading available within a text;

    • makes and supports inferences from texts independently.

• Language features

  • Show an understanding of how language features are used for effect within and across texts.

    • identifies oral, written, and visual language features and understands their effects;

    • uses an increasing vocabulary to make meaning;

      • Alphabetical order (8-W.1)
      • Use guide words (8-W.2)
      • Use dictionary entries (8-W.3)
      • Use dictionary definitions (8-W.4)
      • Use thesaurus entries (8-W.5)
      • Alphabetical order (9-X.1)
      • Use guide words (9-X.2)
      • Use dictionary entries (9-X.3)
      • Use dictionary definitions (9-X.4)
      • Use thesaurus entries (9-X.5)
      • Use dictionary entries (10-V.1)
      • Use dictionary definitions (10-V.2)
      • Use thesaurus entries (10-V.4)
      • Use dictionary entries (11-V.1)
      • Use dictionary definitions (11-V.2)
      • Use thesaurus entries (11-V.4)

    • understands how a range of text conventions work together to create meaning and effect;

      • Identify plagiarism (10-N.1)
      • Identify plagiarism (11-N.1)
      • Identify plagiarism (12-L.1)

    • understands that authors have different voices and styles and can identify those differences.

• Structure

  • Show an understanding of a range of structures.

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