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New Zealand Curriculum · Year 4 · English · Oral language

11 curriculum codes

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English

Oral language

NZ-Y4-ENG-OL-CII-VR-1

give descriptions, recounts, and narrative retellings with specific details to actively engage listeners

32 resources

Blueback Book Study – Years 3–6

$4.99

Bring a Story to Life - Year 3

$4.99

Building Informative Paragraphs - Year 3

$4.99

Character, Setting and Plot – Year 4

$4.99

Characters Make Us Care — Year 4 English Unit

$4.99

Dreaming Soldiers Book Study English Unit - Years 3-4

$4.99

Evaluative Language - Year 3

$4.99

Expressing Feelings and Opinions - Year 3

$4.99

Fables Unit – Year 4

$4.99

Facts into Clear Talks - Year 4

$4.99

Genre: How Stories Work - Years 3-6

$4.99

Informative Texts Writing Unit – Year 3

$4.99

Judging Characters with Word Clues - Year 3

$4.99

Leila and the Blue Fox & Migrants Unit Plan

$4.99

Leila and the Blue Fox Literature Bundle | Years 3–6

$6.99

Leila and the Blue Fox: Hybrid Text Unit

$4.99

Make Your Case - Year 4

$4.99

Narrative Writing Unit - Year 4

$4.99

Paragraphing Stories for Readers - Year 3

$4.99

Persuasive Texts Year 3

$4.99

Persuasive Writing Progression Bundle | Years 1–6

$24.99

Plot Tension: Questions and Payoffs - Year 4 English

$4.99

Practising Paragraphs - Year 3

$4.99

Preparing Oral Presentations - Year 3

$4.99

Settings Build Expectation — Year 4 English Unit

$4.99

Show, Explain and Inform - Year 3

$4.99

Wonder Characterisation Unit: Years 3–6

$4.99

Yahoo Creek: Persuasive Writing

$4.99

Year 3 Informative Texts Unit | Factual Recount, Autobiography & Explanation

$4.99

Year 3 Modality Unit

$4.99

Year 3 Procedural Texts Unit | Worksheets, Games & Assessment

$4.99

Year 4 Oral Presentations Unit

$4.99

NZ-Y4-ENG-OL-IC-CVTVP-1

understand how tone, volume, and pace influence meaning and use them effectively to engage listeners

6 resources

Facts into Clear Talks - Year 4

$4.99

Leila and the Blue Fox & Migrants Unit Plan

$4.99

Leila and the Blue Fox Literature Bundle | Years 3–6

$6.99

Make Your Case - Year 4

$4.99

Yahoo Creek: Persuasive Writing

$4.99

Year 4 Oral Presentations Unit

$4.99

NZ-Y4-ENG-OL-IC-LRO-1

make comments that encourage discussion, and ask clarifying questions
give and respond to natural prompts for turn-taking in conversation and consider the impact of their words on others

13 resources

Bring a Story to Life - Year 3

$4.99

Build Ideas Together - Year 3

$4.99

Choose Your Words for the Situation - Year 3

$4.99

Ideas We Build Together - Year 4

$4.99

Leila and the Blue Fox & Migrants Unit Plan

$4.99

Leila and the Blue Fox Literature Bundle | Years 3–6

$6.99

Listen, Ask and Find Out - Year 3

$4.99

Listen, Note and Get It Done - Year 4

$4.99

Preparing Oral Presentations - Year 3

$4.99

Show, Explain and Inform - Year 3

$4.99

Wonder Characterisation Unit: Years 3–6

$4.99

Yahoo Creek: Persuasive Writing

$4.99

Year 4 Oral Presentations Unit

$4.99

NZ-Y4-ENG-OL-IC-NVC-1

consider using movement when addressing an audience

10 resources

Bring a Story to Life - Year 3

$4.99

Build Ideas Together - Year 3

$4.99

Choose Your Words for the Situation - Year 3

$4.99

Leila and the Blue Fox & Migrants Unit Plan

$4.99

Leila and the Blue Fox Literature Bundle | Years 3–6

$6.99

Listen, Ask and Find Out - Year 3

$4.99

Preparing Oral Presentations - Year 3

$4.99

Show, Explain and Inform - Year 3

$4.99

Wonder Characterisation Unit: Years 3–6

$4.99

Yahoo Creek: Persuasive Writing

$4.99

NZ-Y4-ENG-OL-VG-V-1

Possible descriptor 1:
consider the words and phrasing they use to express their ideas and how this supports the purpose of their talk (e.g., to persuade or entertain)

Possible descriptor 2:
communicate in complete sentences, incorporating a range of conjunctions and connectives, and varying sentence structure and length to create effect and support meaning

24 resources

Adjectives & Adjective Groups Years 1–5 English Unit Bundle

$14.99

Adjectives Year 3 Unit

$4.99

Affixes, Morphemes & Word Origins Years 2–6 Bundle

$17.99

Etymological Word Origins – Year 4

$4.99

Evaluative Language - Year 3

$4.99

Facts into Clear Talks - Year 4

$4.99

From Opinions to Findings - Year 4

$4.99

Images in Texts – Year 3

$4.99

Leila and the Blue Fox & Migrants Unit Plan

$4.99

Leila and the Blue Fox Literature Bundle | Years 3–6

$6.99

Make Your Case - Year 4

$4.99

Objective and Subjective Language – Year 4

$4.99

Perspective & Context English Unit

$4.99

Picture Clues Tell the Story - Year 3

$4.99

Pictures Speak to the Reader - Year 3

$4.99

Synonyms and Antonyms Year 4 Unit

$4.99

Using Quotation Marks – Year 3

$4.99

Verb Tense — Year 4 Unit of Work

$4.99

Yahoo Creek: Persuasive Writing

$4.99

Year 3 Adverbs Unit of Work

$4.99

Year 3 Clauses Unit | Worksheets, Games & Assessment

$4.99

Year 3 Past Present Future Tense Unit | Worksheets, Games & Assessment

$4.99

Year 3 Vivid Verbs Unit | Worksheets, Activities & Assessment

$4.99

Year 4 Oral Presentations Unit

$4.99