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After one year at school
Reading	Writing
The Way It Was (PDF, 152 KB) A Good Idea (PDF, 197 KB) The Great Car Clean-Out (PDF, 218 KB) Mum's New Job (PDF, 846 KB)	On the Weekend (PDF, 121 KB) I Wonder Why We Have Night and Day (PDF, 145 KB) The Three Little Pigs (PDF, 590 KB) My Chicken (PDF, 478 KB) Magnets (PDF, 689 KB)

After two years at school
Reading	Writing
The King's Birthday (PDF, 168 KB) Inside the Maize Maze (PDF, 220 KB) Dimitri's Lunch (PDF, 376 KB)	The Tupperware Party (PDF, 146 KB) Stories Along the River (PDF, 151 KB) Cats (PDF, 590 KB) Green and Red Yummy Jelly (PDF, 724 KB) How the Lungs Work (PDF, 487 KB) What Are Pyramids For? (PDF, 594 KB)

After three years at school
Reading	Writing
Night is a Blanket (PDF, 175 KB) Sun Bears are Special (PDF, 173 KB) The Impossible Bridge (PDF, 847 KB) Underseas Gardens (PDF, 498 KB) Wild Orphans (PDF, 3 MB) A Quiet Evening (PDF, 998 KB)	Compost Worms (PDF, 106 KB) Make a Smoothie (PDF, 87 KB) Cheeky Charlie (PDF, 515 KB)

By the end of Year 4
Reading	Writing
Camping Down the Line (PDF, 194 KB) Basket Boats (PDF, 710 KB) Nana and the Flower Arranger (PDF, 644 KB) Haere Mai (PDF, 740 KB) Rangoli (PDF, 691 KB) Celebrating Matariki (PDF, 689 KB)	The Ram (PDF, 135 KB) Why Do Onions Make You Cry? (PDF, 488 KB) It's Mexicano Nachos (PDF, 490 KB) Christopher Columbus (PDF, 589 KB)

By the end of Year 5
Reading	Writing
Plight of the Sea Turtle (PDF, 213 KB) Plastic Fantastic? (PDF, 1 MB) World's Water Running Out (PDF, 646 KB) Finding China (PDF, 965 KB) Survivor (PDF, 691 KB) Drought (PDF, 766 KB)	My Big Challenge and Jellyfish (PDF, 148 KB) Why and How Tornados Occur? (PDF, 1 MB) Water Quality (PDF, 469 KB) I Am David – Epilogue (PDF, 822 KB)

By the end of Year 6
Reading	Writing
Plight of the Sea Turtle (PDF, 165 KB) The Vege Car (PDF, 800 KB) A Flying Ostrich (PDF, 663 KB)	Bottle Submarine (PDF, 145 KB) Shadows (PDF, 470 KB) Recycling (PDF, 496 KB) A Conversation (PDF, 545 KB)

By the end of Year 7
Reading	Writing
The Gestapo's Most Wanted (PDF, 217 KB) Estuary Health Check (PDF, 848 KB) Deer, Oh Deer (PDF, 230 KB)	Bottle Submarine and the Grey Wolf (PDF, 135 KB) My Room Makeover (PDF, 624 KB) Events of the Past (PDF, 1 MB)

By the end of Year 8
Reading	Writing
The Gestapo's Most Wanted (PDF, 208 KB) Deer, Oh Deer (PDF, 605 KB) Flight of the Albatross (PDF, 725 KB) One Small Step (PDF, 826 KB) Richard Henry: Protector of the Kākāpō (PDF, 1 MB) Pacific Paradise? (PDF, 767 KB)	No Advertisements and Selfish Stupid Smoke Selling (PDF, 243 KB) Landfills (PDF, 755 KB) Fair Trade Coffee (PDF, 745 KB)

Acknowledgments

Extracts in the reading standards are from the Ready to Read and the School Journal series. Copyright for the texts, illustrations and photographs are as stated in the original publications. Examples of students’ writing have been reproduced by kind permission of the writers and are copyright © Crown.

Updated on: 05 Mar 2020

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