English Education-Resources Level 1

Year(s)

Level(s)

Duration

Teacher

Classroom

1

o  Listening Reading Viewing

Processes and strategies

o Begin to acquire and 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 the sources of information (meaning, structure, and visual and grapho-phonic information) and prior knowledge to make sense of a range of texts with some confidence.

• Associates sounds with letter clusters as well as with individual letters.
• Uses processing and comprehension strategies with some confidence.
• Is developing the ability to think critically about texts.
• Is beginning to monitor, self-evaluate, and describe progress.

Purposes and audiences

o Show a developing understanding that texts are shaped for different purposes and audiences.

• Recognises that different texts are produced for different purposes.

• Can identify the purposes of simple texts.

Ideas

o Recognise and identify ideas within and across texts.

• Understands that their personal experience can influence the meaning gained from texts.

• Makes meaning of texts by identifying the ideas and language in them.

• Makes and supports inferences from texts with some guidance.

 Language features

o Show an initial understanding of how language features are used within and across texts.

• Recognises a large bank of high-frequency words.

• Begins to recognise that oral, written, and visual language features are used for effect.

• Shows an increasing knowledge of the conventions of text, such as capital letters, full stops, and word order; volume and clarity; and simple symbols.

Structure

o Recognise that the structure and organisation of text is important for making meaning.

• Understands that the order and organisation of words, sentences, and images contribute to text meaning.

• Recognises some text forms and some differences between them.

o  Speaking, Writing, Presenting

Processes and strategies

o Begin to acquire and 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 when creating text.

• Is able to create texts by using meaning, structure, and visual and grapho-phonic information with some confidence.

• Seeks feedback and makes changes to texts.

• Is becoming reflective about the production of their own texts.

• Is beginning to monitor, self-evaluate, and describe progress.

 Purposes and audiences

o Show a developing understanding of how to shape texts for different audiences and purposes.

• Through choice of content, language, and text form, constructs texts that demonstrate some awareness of purpose and audience.

• Expects the texts they create to be understood and appreciated by others.

• Is beginning to develop and convey personal voice.

Ideas

o Form and express ideas on a range of topics.

• Forms and expresses simple ideas and information, drawing from personal experience and knowledge.

• Begins to support ideas with some detail.

Language features

o Use language features, showing an initial understanding of their effect on text meaning and impact.

• Uses a range of high-frequency and personal content words.

• Begins to use oral, written, and visual language features to create meaning and impact.

• Spells some high-frequency words correctly.

• Gains increasing control of the conventions of text, such as capital letters, full stops, and word order; volume, clarity, and tone; and simple symbols.

Structure

o Begin to use structure and organisation to communicate meaning in texts.

• Uses knowledge of word and sentence order to communicate meaning in simple texts.

• Begins to sequence ideas and information.

• Uses simple sentences with some variation in beginnings.

• May attempt compound and complex sentences.

Additional Curriculum areas

o Technology  

o Learning Languages 

o Arts 

o Science 

o Te Reo  

o Maths  

o Health and P.E.

o Social Sciences

Write the Achievement Objective(s) to be assessed:

Students will:

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Specific Learning Outcomes

By the end of this unit, students will be able to:

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Setting

o New Zealand   o Rekohu (The Chatham Islands)   o Asia 

o Australia         o Americas                                o Global

Perspective:      o The Past (History)       o The Present (Current Issues)           o The Future.

                           o Multicultural        o Indigenous people       o Equality         o Rights       o Gender    

Key Competencies focus:

(Select only those being focused on)

o managing self

o relating to others

o participating and contributing

o thinking

o using language, symbols, and texts.

Teaching and Learning Activities

Resources

Assessment Schedule

Unit Evaluation