Comparing a text with the Standard for Reading and the Literacy Learning Progressions at Year 5-6 (L3)
NZ Standards: End of Year 6 (L3)
…locate, evaluate and integrate information and ideas
within and across a small range of texts appropriate to
this level as they generate and answer questions to
meet specific purposes across the curriculum.
…… increased accuracy and speed ; level of control and
independence; range of texts; longer texts more quickly
than students in year 5; selecting different strategies …
compared to Year 5
Curriculum area:
Literacy Learning Progressions
By the end of Year 6, students are
required to read longer texts more
quickly and to select appropriate
strategies for different reading purposes more
effectively than students in Year 5.
Topic:
Text:
Readability:
Characteristics of the text:
Key characteristics of texts that students read at this level
1.
abstract ideas, in greater numbers
than in texts at earlier levels, accompanied by
concrete examples in the text that help
support the students’ understanding
2.
some ideas and information that are
conveyed indirectly and require students to
infer by drawing on several related pieces of
information in the text
3.
some information that is irrelevant to
the identified purpose for reading (that is,
some competing information), which
students need to identify and reject as they
integrate pieces of information in order to
answer questions
4.
mixed text types (for example, a
complex explanation may be included as part
of a report)
5.
sentences that vary in length and in
structure (for example, sentences that begin
in different ways and different kinds of
complex sentences with a number of
subordinate clauses)
6.
a significant amount of vocabulary
that is unfamiliar to the students (including
academic and content-specific words and
phrases), which is generally explained in the
text by words or illustrations
7.
figurative and/or ambiguous language
that the context helps students to
understand
8.
illustrations, photographs, text boxes,
diagrams, maps, charts, and graphs that
clarify or extend the text and may require
some interpretation.
… the Standards describe the
demands of text at L3 of the
NZC
Skills needing to be taught:
Teaching strategies:
 guided reading
 shared
 independent
 listening to text
 other
Name of student
…LLPs describe the
reading skills needed
to access L3 of the NZC
When students at this level read, respond to, and think critically about texts,
they:

Monitor their reading for accuracy and sense, demonstrating that
they have the confidence to adjust their reading (eg by varying the
speed of reading, by rereading, and by attending to the most
important information) when they encounter difficulties.

Understand how they select from and use their repertoire of
comprehension strategies, which include:
o
Making connections between their prior knowledge and
the concrete examples in a text in order to understand
abstract ideas in the text.
o
Locating and summarising ideas (eg by skimming or
scanning, by identifying key words, topic sentences, and
key questions, or by using subheadings)
o
Drawing on several related items of information in
order to infer ideas and information that are not
directly stated in the text.
o
Evaluating and integrating ideas and information across
a small range of texts.

Regularly read for sustained periods and sustain meaning over
many days in longer texts (such as novels) and across a variety of
texts on the same topic.

Identify and reflect on writer’s purposes and on the ways in which
writers use language and ideas to suit their purposes (eg by using
vocabulary to set a scene or develop a mood)
They draw on knowledge and skills that include:

Decoding texts fluently and accurately, using a range of reliable
strategies;

Finding and learning the meanings of unknown vocabulary by using
strategies such as applying their knowledge of how words work or
seeking explanations in the text or in illustrations;

Understanding that words and phrases can have figurative as well
as literal meanings and that some words have different meanings
depending on the context;

Recognising basic grammatical constructions and understanding
how these affect meaning;

Identifying the specific language features and structures of many
common continuous and non-continuous text types (including
mixed text types);

Interpreting illustrations, photographs, text boxes, diagrams, maps,
charts and graphs.
Comparing a text with the Standard for Reading and the Literacy Learning Progressions at Year 5-6 (L3)