Phase 3 English Curriculum - School Scheme
This scheme is designed to support school leaders and teachers to plan, teach and assess year 7 and 8 students under phase 3 of the New Zealand Curriculum. This is a single fully editable document that we're sure will become your 'go-to'!
Features include:
❤️ Administrative details
An overview of the structure of phase 3.
Pages to help you catalogue department texts, checking against forms and range.
Templates to help you plan an annual programme for each year level, and note sequence and timings.
❤️ READING - Text Studies
- Pages for novel, poetry, non-fiction and film showing curriculum requirements organised in a realistic teaching sequence. As well as curriculum requirements, we've added other helpful information to help you teach each text (in a blue font so you can tell WE'VE added it).
- These pages are designed as 'grab and go' resources and should be particularly helpful for beginning teachers.
- Links at the end of each text type take you to relevant text tests for student revision.
❤️ WRITING text types
- Pages for writing to entertain, inform and persuade, showing curriculum requirements organised in a realistic teaching sequence. As well as curriculum requirements, we've added other helpful information to help you teach each text (in a blue font so you can tell WE'VE added it).
- At the end of the information for each text type, we link you to the corresponding student checklist and marking rubric.
❤️ ORAL LANGUAGE text types
- Pages for writing to speeches, storytelling and discussion, showing curriculum requirements organised in a realistic teaching sequence. As well as curriculum requirements, we've added other helpful information to help you teach each text (in a blue font so you can tell WE'VE added it).
- At the end of the information for each text type, we link you to the corresponding student checklist and marking rubric.
❤️ ALSO
- Text tests
(as mentioned above for prose, poetry, non-fiction and film).
- Student checklists
for writing to entertain, informative writing, persuasive writing, response to a text, literary essays, speech, storytelling, discussion.
- Assessment rubrics
for writing to entertain, informative writing, persuasive writing, response to a text, literary essays, speech, storytelling, discussion and the writing PROCESS (planning, thesaurus use etc).
NAVIGATION HEAVEN:
Clickable table of contents.
Images at top right of every page take you back to the table of contents.
Tabs down the side let you click to different sections. (These do not show when document is printed.)
Hyperlinks throughout.
Formats:
🖥️ Microsoft PowerPoint, resized to an A4 page. This means your resource:
Is completely editable.
Will easily upload to your Google Drive if you prefer the Googley suite.
Is printable 📃
🖥️ A PDF version of each document.
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Sharing/Copying this Resource
Feel free to purchase just one for your department - no need for a copy for each teacher. However:
- Please do NOT share with the school down the road.
- Please do NOT take it with you to a new school.
- Feel free to suggest the website to others - that'd be great!
That's pretty fair I think! Let's help each other out. :)

