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New Zealand Curriculum
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English
Level 1
Listening, Reading, and Viewing
Processes and Strategies
Acquire and begin to use sources of information, processes, and strategies to identify, form, and express ideas
Has an awareness of the connections between oral, written, and visual language
Uses sources of information (meaning, structure, visual and grapho-phonic information) and prior knowledge to make sense of a range of texts
Associates sounds with letter clusters as well as with individual letters
Language Features
Recognise and begin to understand how language features are used for effect within and across texts
Recognises a large bank of high-frequency and some topic-specific words
Shows some knowledge of text conventions, such as: capital letters, full stops, and word order; volume and clarity; and simple symbols
Structure
Recognise and begin to understand text structures
Understands that the order and organisation of words, sentences, and images contribute to text meaning
Speaking, Writing, and Presenting
Language Features
Use language features, showing some recognition of their effects
Spells some high-frequency words correctly and begins to use some common spelling patterns
Begins to gain control of text conventions, such as: capital letters and full stops
Structure
Organise texts, using simple structures
Uses knowledge of word and sentence order to communicate meaning in simple texts
Level 2
Listening, Reading, and Viewing
Processes and Strategies
Select and use sources of information, processes, and strategies with some confidence to identify, form, and express ideas
Recognises connections between oral, written, and visual language
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
Uses an increasing knowledge of letter clusters, affixes, roots, and compound words to confirm predictions
Purposes and Audience
Show some understanding of how texts are shaped for different purposes and audiences
Recognises how texts are constructed for different purposes, audiences, and situations
Language Features
Show some understanding of how language features are used for effect within and across texts
Uses a large and increasing bank of high-frequency, topic-specific, and personal-content words to make meaning
Shows an increasing knowledge of the conventions of text
Structure
Show some understanding of text structures
Understands that the order and organisation of words, sentences, paragraphs, and images contribute to text meaning
Speaking, Writing, and Presenting
Processes and Strategies
Select and use sources of information, processes, and strategies with some confidence to identify, form, and express ideas
Shows some understanding of the connections between oral, written, and visual language when creating texts
Creates texts by using meaning, structure, visual and grapho-phonic sources of information, and processing strategies with growing confidence
Language Features
Use language features appropriately, showing some understanding of their effects
Uses oral, written, and visual language features to create meaning and effect
Uses a large and increasing bank of high-frequency, topic-specific, and personal-content words to create meaning
Spells most high-frequency words correctly and shows growing knowledge of common spelling patterns
Gains increasing control of text conventions, including some grammatical conventions
Structure
Organise texts, using a range of structures
Uses knowledge of word and sentence order to communicate meaning when creating texts
Level 3
Listening, Reading, and Viewing
Processes and Strategies
Integrate sources of information, processes, and strategies with developing confidence to identify, form, and express ideas
Recognises and understands the connections between oral, written, and visual language
Integrates sources of information and prior knowledge with developing confidence to make sense of increasingly varied and complex texts
Selects and uses a range of processing and comprehension strategies with growing understanding and confidence
Purposes and Audience
Show a developing understanding of how texts are shaped for different purposes and audiences
Recognises and understands how texts are constructed for a range of purposes, audiences, and situations
Identifies particular points of view and begins to recognise that texts can position a reader
Evaluates the reliability and usefulness of texts with increasing confidence
Ideas
Show a developing understanding of ideas within, across, and beyond texts
Uses their personal experience and world and literacy knowledge confidently to make meaning from texts
Language Features
Show a developing understanding of how language features are used for effect within and across texts
Identifies oral, written, and visual language features used in texts and recognises their effects
Shows an increasing knowledge of how a range of text conventions can be used appropriately
Structure
Show a developing understanding of text structures
Understands that the order and organisation of words, sentences, paragraphs, and images contribute to and affect text meaning
Identifies a range of text forms and recognises some of their characteristics and conventions
Speaking, Writing, and Presenting
Processes and Strategies
Integrate sources of information, processes, and strategies with developing confidence to identify, form, and express ideas
Uses a developing understanding of the connections between oral, written, and visual language when creating texts
Purposes and Audience
Show a developing understanding of how to shape texts for different purposes and audiences
Constructs texts that show a growing awareness of purpose and audience through careful choice of content, language, and text form
Language Features
Use language features appropriately, showing a developing understanding of their effects
Demonstrates good understanding of all basic spelling patterns and sounds in written English
Uses an increasing range of strategies to self-monitor and self-correct spelling
Uses a range of text conventions, including most grammatical conventions, appropriately and with increasing accuracy
Structure
Organise texts, using a range of appropriate structures
Uses a variety of sentence structures, beginnings, and lengths
Level 4
Listening, Reading, and Viewing
Processes and Strategies
Integrate sources of information, processes, and strategies confidently to identify, form, and express ideas
Recognises and understands the connections between oral, written, and visual language
Integrates sources of information and prior knowledge confi dently to make sense of increasingly varied and complex texts
Selects and uses appropriate processing and comprehension strategies with increasing understanding and confidence
Purposes and Audience
Show an increasing understanding of how texts are shaped for different purposes and audiences
Recognises and understands how texts are constructed for a range of purposes, audiences, and situations
Language Features
Show an increasing understanding of how language features are used for effect within and across texts
Identifies oral, written, and visual features used and recognises and describes their effects
Uses an increasing vocabulary to make meaning
Shows an increasing knowledge of how a range of text conventions can be used appropriately and effectively
Structure
Show an increasing understanding of text structures
Identifies an increasing range of text forms and recognises and describes their characteristics and conventions
Speaking, Writing, and Presenting
Purposes and Audience
Show an increasing understanding of how to shape texts for different purposes and audiences
Constructs texts that show an awareness of purpose and audience through deliberate choice of content, language, and text form
Language Features
Use a range of language features appropriately, showing an increasing understanding of their effects
Uses a range of vocabulary to communicate precise meaning
Demonstrates a good understanding of spelling patterns in written English, with few intrusive errors
Uses a range of text conventions, including grammatical conventions, appropriately, effectively, and with increasing accuracy
Structure
Organise texts, using a range of appropriate structures
Uses a variety of sentence structures, beginnings, and lengths for effect
Level 5
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
Recognises, understands, and considers the connections between oral, written, and visual language
Selects and uses appropriate processing and comprehension strategies with confidence
Purposes and Audience
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
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
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
Understands how a range of text conventions work together to create meaning and effect
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
Speaking, Writing, and Presenting
Processes and Strategies
Integrate sources of information, processes, and strategies purposefully and confidently to identify, form, and express increasingly sophisticated ideas
Uses an increasing understanding of the connections between oral, written, and visual language when creating texts
Is reflective about the production of own texts: monitors and self-evaluates progress, articulating learning with confidence
Purposes and Audience
Show an understanding of how to shape texts for different audiences and purposes
Constructs a range of texts that demonstrate an understanding of purpose and audience through deliberate choice of content, language, and text form
Language Features
Select and use a range of language features appropriately, showing an understanding of their effects
Uses an increasing range of vocabulary to communicate precise meaning
Uses a wide range of text conventions, including grammatical and spelling conventions, appropriately, effectively, and with increasing accuracy
Level 6
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
Recognises, understands, and considers the connections between oral, written, and visual language
Integrates sources of information and prior knowledge purposefully and confidently to make sense of increasingly varied and complex texts
Selects and uses appropriate processing and comprehension strategies with confidence
Purposes and Audience
Show a developed 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
Ideas
Show a developed understanding of ideas within, across, and beyond texts
Makes meaning by understanding comprehensive ideas
Language Features
Show a developed understanding of how language features are used for effect within and across texts
Uses an increasing vocabulary to make meaning
Structure
Show a developed 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
Speaking, Writing, and Presenting
Purposes and Audience
Show a developed understanding of how to shape texts for different audiences and purposes
Constructs a range of texts that demonstrate an understanding of purpose and audience through deliberate choice of content, language, and text form
Language Features
Select and use a range of language features appropriately for a variety of effects
Uses an increasing vocabulary to communicate precise meaning
Uses a wide range of text conventions, including grammatical and spelling conventions, appropriately, effectively, and with accuracy
Mathematics and Statistics
Level 1
Number and Algebra
Number Strategies
Use a range of counting, grouping, and equal-sharing strategies with whole numbers and fractions
Number Knowledge
Know the forward and backwards counting sequences of whole numbers to 100
Know groupings with five, within ten, and with ten
Equations and Expressions
Communicate and explain counting, grouping, and equal-sharing strategies, using words, numbers, and pictures
Patterns and Relationships
Generalise that the next counting number gives the result of adding one object to a set and that counting the number of objects in a set tells how many
Create and continue sequential patterns
Geometry and Measurement
Measurement
Order and compare objects or events by length, area, volume and capacity, weight (mass), turn (angle), temperature, and time by direct comparison and/or counting whole numbers of units
Shape
Sort objects by their appearance
Position and Orientation
Give and follow instructions for movement that involve distances, directions, and half or quarter turns
Describe their position relative to a person or object
Transformation
Communicate and record the results of translations, reflections, and rotations on plane shapes
Statistics
Statistical Investigation
Conduct investigations using the statistical enquiry cycle: posing and answering questions; gathering, sorting and counting, and displaying category data; discussing the results
Level 2
Number and Algebra
Number Strategies
Use simple additive strategies with whole numbers and fractions
Number Knowledge
Know forward and backward counting sequences with whole numbers to at least 1000
Know the basic addition and subtraction facts
Know how many ones, tens, and hundreds are in whole numbers to at least 1000
Know simple fractions in everyday use
Equations and Expressions
Communicate and interpret simple additive strategies, using words, diagrams (pictures), and symbols
Patterns and Relationships
Generalise that whole numbers can be partitioned in many ways
Find rules for the next member in a sequential pattern
Geometry and Measurement
Measurement
Create and use appropriate units and devices to measure length, area, volume and capacity, weight (mass), turn (angle), temperature, and time
Partition and/or combine like measures and communicate them, using numbers and units
Shape
Sort objects by their spatial features, with justification
Identify and describe the plane shapes found in objects
Position and Orientation
Create and use simple maps to show position and direction
Describe different views and pathways from locations on a map
Transformation
Predict and communicate the results of translations, reflections, and rotations on plane shapes
Statistics
Statistical Investigation
Conduct investigations using the statistical enquiry cycle: posing and answering questions; gathering, sorting and displaying category and whole-number data; communicating findings based on the data
Probability
Investigate simple situations that involve elements of chance, recognising equal and different likelihoods and acknowledging uncertainty
Level 3
Number and Algebra
Number Strategies
Use a range of additive and simple multiplicative strategies with whole numbers, fractions, decimals, and percentages
Number Knowledge
Know basic multiplication and division facts
Know counting sequences for whole numbers
Know how many tenths, tens, hundreds, and thousands are in whole numbers
Know fractions and percentages in everyday use
Equations and Expressions
Record and interpret additive and simple multiplicative strategies, using, words, diagrams, and symbols, with an understanding of equality
Patterns and Relationships
Generalise the properties of addition and subtraction with whole numbers
Connect members of sequential patterns with their ordinal position and use tables, graphs, and diagrams to find relationships between successive elements of number and spatial patterns
Geometry and Measurement
Measurement
Use linear scales and whole numbers of metric units for length, area, volume and capacity, weight (mass), angle, temperature, and time
Find areas of rectangles and volumes of cuboids by applying multiplication
Shape
Classify plane shapes and prisms by their spatial features
Position and Orientation
Use a co-ordinate system or the language of direction and distance to specify locations and describe paths
Transformation
Describe the transformations (reflection, rotation, translation, or enlargement) that have mapped one object onto another
Statistics
Statistical Investigation
Conduct investigations using the statistical enquiry cycle: gathering, sorting, and displaying multivariate category and whole-number data and simple time-series data to answer questions; identifying patterns and trends in context, within and between data
Statistical Literacy
Evaluate the effectiveness of different displays in representing the findings of a statistical investigation or probability activity undertaken by others
Probability
Investigate simple situations that involve elements of chance by comparing experimental results with expectations from models of all the outcomes, acknowledging that samples vary
Level 4
Numbers and Algebra
Number Strategies and Knowledge
Use a range of multiplicative strategies when operating on whole numbers
Understand addition and subtraction of fractions, decimals, and integers
Find fractions, decimals, and percentages of amounts expressed as whole numbers, simple fractions, and decimals
Apply simple linear proportions, including ordering fractions
Know the equivalent decimal and percentage forms for everyday fractions
Know the relative size and place value structure of positive and negative integers and decimals to three places
Equations and Expressions
Form and solve simple linear equations
Patterns and Relationships
Generalise properties of multiplication and division with whole numbers
Use graphs, tables, and rules to describe linear relationships found in number and spatial patterns
Geometry and Measurement
Measurement
Use appropriate scales, devices, and metric units for length, area, volume and capacity, weight (mass), temperature, angle, and time
Convert between metric units, using whole numbers and commonly used decimals
Use side or edge lengths to find the perimeters and areas of rectangles, parallelograms, and triangles and the volumes of cuboids
Interpret and use scales, timetables, and charts
Shape
Identify classes of two- and three-dimensional shapes by their geometric properties
Relate three-dimensional models to two-dimensional representations, and vice versa
Position and Orientation
Communicate and interpret locations and directions, using compass directions, distances, and grid references
Transformation
Use the invariant properties of figures and objects under transformations (reflection, rotation, translation, or enlargement)
Statistics
Statistical Investigation
Plan and conduct investigations using the statistical enquiry cycle: determining appropriate variables and data collection methods; gathering, sorting, and displaying multivariate category, measurement, and time-series data to detect patterns, variations,
Statistical Literacy
Evaluate statements made by others about the findings of statistical investigations and probability activities
Probability
Investigate situations that involve elements of chance by comparing experimental distributions with expectations from models of the possible outcomes, acknowledging variation and independence
Use simple fractions and percentages to describe probabilities
Level 5
Number and Algebra
Number Strategies and Knowledge
Reason with linear proportions
Use prime numbers, common factors and multiples, and powers (including square roots)
Understand operations on fractions, decimals, percentages, and integers
Use rates and ratios
Know commonly used fraction, decimal, and percentage conversions
Know and apply standard form, significant figures, rounding, and decimal place value
Equations and Expressions
Form and solve linear and simple quadratic equations
Patterns and Relationships
Generalise the properties of operations with fractional numbers and integers
Relate tables, graphs, and equations to linear and simple quadratic relationships found in number and spatial patterns
Geometry and Measurement
Measurement
Select and use appropriate metric units for length, area, volume and capacity, weight (mass), temperature, angle, and time, with awareness that measurements are approximate
Convert between metric units, using decimals
Deduce and use formulae to find the perimeters and areas of polygons and the volumes of prisms
Find the perimeters and areas of circles and composite shapes and the volumes of prisms, including cylinders
Shape
Deduce the angle properties of intersecting and parallel lines and the angle properties of polygons and apply these properties
Create accurate nets for simple polyhedra and connect three-dimensional solids with different two-dimensional representations
Position and Orientation
Construct and describe simple loci
Interpret points and lines on co-ordinate planes, including scales and bearings on maps
Transformation
Define and use transformations and describe the invariant properties of figures and objects under these transformations
Apply trigonometric ratios and Pythagoras' theorem in two dimensions
Statistics
Statistical Investigation
Plan and conduct surveys and experiments using the statistical enquiry cycle: determining appropriate variables and measures; considering sources of variation; gathering and cleaning data; using multiple displays, and re-categorising data to find patterns
Statistical Literacy
Evaluate statistical investigations or probability activities undertaken by others, including data collection methods, choice of measures, and validity of findings
Probability
Calculate probabilities, using fractions, percentages, and ratios
Level 6
Number and Algebra
Number Strategies and Knowledge
Apply direct and inverse relationships with linear proportions
Extend powers to include integers and fractions
Find optimal solutions, using numerical approaches
Equations and Expressions
Form and solve linear equations and inequations, quadratic and simple exponential equations, and simultaneous equations with two unknowns
Patterns and Relationships
Generalise the properties of operations with rational numbers, including the properties of exponents
Relate graphs, tables, and equations to linear, quadratic, and simple exponential relationships found in number and spatial patterns
Relate rate of change to the gradient of a graph
Geometry and Measurement
Measurement
Calculate volumes, including prisms, pyramids, cones, and spheres, using formulae
Shape
Deduce and apply the angle properties related to circles
Recognise when shapes are similar and use proportional reasoning to find an unknown length
Use trigonometric ratios and Pythagoras' theorem in two and three dimensions
Transformation
Compare and apply single and multiple transformations
Analyse symmetrical patterns by the transformations used to create them
Statistics
Statistical Investigation
Plan and conduct investigations using the statistical enquiry cycle: justifying the variables and measures used; managing sources of variation, including through the use of random sampling; identifying and communicating features in context (trends, relati
Level 7
Mathematics
Patterns and Relationships
Apply co-ordinate geometry techniques to points and lines
Display the graphs of linear and non-linear functions and connect the structure of the functions with their graphs
Equations and Expressions
Manipulate rational, exponential, and logarithmic algebraic expressions
New Zealand Curriculum
Mathematics and Statistics
Level 5
Statistics
Probability
Outcomes
Calculate probabilities, using fractions, percentages, and ratios
Calculate probabilities, using fractions, percentages, and ratios
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