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New Zealand curriculum – draft 2006–2007
Read the English curriculum learning area introduction on page 15:
- The New Zealand curriculum: Draft for consultation 2006 (PDF, 2.24 MB)
- English curriculum achievement objectives (PDF, 546.77 kB)
In English, students study, use and enjoy language and literature, communicated orally, visually, or in writing.
The achievement objectives have been combined to make them clearer and much easier for teachers to use. The new curriculum structure reflects all the thinking that has happened during the development of previous projects such as asTTLe and the curriculum exemplars.
The achievement objectives have been combined into two interrelated strands covering:
- 'speaking, writing, and presenting' – where learners develop their ability to use the English language appropriately and creatively for a range of purposes and within a range of contexts
- 'listening, reading, and viewing' – where learners develop skills in understanding and responding to a rich variety of texts in English, including heritage and popular texts, fiction and non-fiction texts.
If you cannot view or read this diagram, select this link to open a text version.
Each strand has four aspects:
- purposes and audiences
- ideas
- language features
- structures and text types.
The current oral, visual, and written strands of the curriculum have been absorbed into the proposed new strands.
